Blind PN tasting with some non-wino friends(Siduri, Alesia, CHughes...)

WINE TALK
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  1. 2007 Siduri Hawk’s Nest Vineyard(Willamette Vly, OR) - 92pts Baking spice, red fruit, stemmy, good long sweet tannic finish A+ Alesia?
  2. 2006 Rhys Alesia Sonoma Coast - 91+pts Rose petal & spice on the nose, good raspberry/strawberry on the attack, stemmy, spicy finish. Oregon?
  3. 2007 Cameron Hughes Lot 110 - 91pts Baking spice, caramel, very thick, cherry cola, good, but bitter tannins
  4. 2007 Tandem Sangiacomo Vineyard - 91pts Long spicy finish, good red fruit, extremely spicy
  5. 2008 Loring Central Coast - 90pts would not have pegged as PN, but is very delicious nonetheless.
  6. 2007 Cameron Hughes Lot 125 - 90pts Good fruit, a little thin, cinnamon & cherries. NZ/Oregon?
  7. 2007 Melville Estate - 89+pts Sweet, candied cherry & strawberry, good structure, good acid & finish, very poor nose. Loring?
  8. 2007 Wyatt - 88pts Great nose, cherry cola, bitter spicy finish. a little too bitter
  9. 2008 Kim Crawford - 85pts Light bodied, very little nose, extremely thin palate
  10. 2008 Mark West - 82pts Disjointed, very tannic, WTH? Something weird about this…Cameron Hughes?
  11. NV Rex & Goliath - 75pts My notes were: Rex & Goliath :wink:

Couple things to note: I’m still not very good at taking notes, my palate is still in training, also I inflate my scores by a point or two - but I wrote down my notes pretty much verbatim. So, just thought I’d share…very impressed with the Siduri. Everything was put through a Vinturi, then poured back into the bottle uncorked for around 5 hours. Feel free to rip my TNs apart :slight_smile:

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Is it the Hawk’s View Vineyard or Hawks Nest?

Also I’m curious why you decided to Vinturi the wines and pour it back into the bottle for five hours? Have you tasted these wines previously?

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whoops, it was Hawk’s View…thanks :slight_smile:

Well, I wanted to give the 07’s a lot of air to really flesh out, but they were in the bottle longer than expected because everybody wanted to eat first and taste afterwards…it was for my sister in law’s birthday, so I didn’t really have a choice. I had tasted the Alesia, Loring, CH110, Melville, Wyatt previously