This is a ruby-colored wine that offers wild game, beef blood, and spicy oak aromas. It is a medium-bodied, mouth-coating, seductive wine densely packed with black cherries, strawberries, and dark raspberries. With aeration, traces of metallic flavors can be detected. It is reminiscent in style to the Guadalupe, but it lacks that wine's impressively long finish. Drink it between 2000 and 2004.
The 1996 McCrone Vineyard Pinot Noir was produced from a 4 year old Dijon clone (#115) vineyard. This Burgundy clone is expected to produce very high quality wine in Oregon (it's also widely planted in California, particularly in the Russian River and Sonoma Coast).
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