Last night we celebrated my 26th birthday at Chopstix with some friends and family. Ken ordered a bottle of 2008 Vintage Mark West Pinot Noir, and we all got a chance to enjoy it. I must say, it had great flavor. It was a very heavy wine, with dark fruit flavors (cherry, strawberry, plum maybe?) but also had a kick of spice to it. It was oaky, but fit the flavor right.
I don't have the bottle obviously, so I can't quote the labels description, but I did skim over the Mark West website today. The 2008 Pinot actually won a lot of awards! It was #1 in its catergory in the Wine Trials. (Basically it is a big blind tasting, where they use paper bags to cover the bottles, and the best wines are chosen based on flavor. It also was named the "Steal of the Year" By Sunset magazine. But anyway, I found it neat that this wine is 100% pinot noir grapes...no mix. They are grown, vinted and aged in California.
I've enjoyed leasrning a little bit about each winery, wine and vineyard with each bottle I open. OH, and for my birthday, Teri bought me red wine glasses. Now we can successfully swirl our wine without sloshing. :-)
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