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N.V. Cameroni Pinot Noir - USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley, Dundee Hills (7/12/2009)
Picked up a 3-pack of these from Storyteller Wines as part of our ongoing effort to drink more rose this summer. Chilled one down and popped it for a midafternoon snack of chevre with sundried tomatoes and crackers. Midway between pink and salmon, this wine is a combination of 50% pinot meunier and 50% pinot noir juice. On the nose, a bracing blast of fruit, Provencal herbs, and salt air - reminds me of Tempier, but less delineated. On the palate, nice acidity walks a tightrope between fruit and mineral. Good stuff.
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Plus, it has Che on the label, which makes me feel very angry, young, and edgy.
By the way, there’s no alcohol content on the label, and no distributor’s label either. Are these facts meaningful?
This wine is actually all 2008 fruit. Only 38 cases were produced. The alcohol is probably around 12.5 and there’s no distributer label because it’s self distributed.
Melissa, Cameron is self distributed. Not that I recall ever seeing a distributor’s label on any wines. Importer, sure, which might be the same as the distributor. But never the distributor.
The “table wine” part of “Pink Table Wine” is a legal way to say between 11%-14% alcohol. “Table wine” essentially means “12.5%” but at that alcohol level you have leeway up to 1.5% below or above. In the old days many wines would read “11-14%” but Tempier’s the only one I can think of who might still do it.
Thanks for the info. So, a wine label doesn’t have to list the alcohol content if it’s self-distributed? It didn’t matter to us, but we were just surprised that the number wasn’t there.
I knew it was a tiny production-- our three bottles represent one-fourth of that retailer’s entire allocation!
Gotcha. I asked the question before I saw your response. Thanks, Vincent!
By the way, nice to see that Scott Frank is among those gone berserk over wine.