After a long day at a successful agility trial, I combined some leftovers into a pasta that I could drink with a bottle of wine. While cooking Kathy asked me which bottle to open up and I said anything that was a Pinot Noir. She found this 2006 Andrew Rich from Oregon which is new to me and a I have a few bottles so the choice seemed exciting. The leftovers I was going to drink the wine with were penne pasta, gazpacho, shrimp, garlic and some slices Calandra bread. The bread I turned into garlic and the gazpacho I turned into a garlic red sauce with shrimp. It worked well and was quick.
As usual, I didn’t give the wine adequate time to breath, the food was ready and hot so I didn’t pay attention to the wine that it deserves in deference to the hot dish I prepared. Nevertheless, the sniffy-sniff I gave it revealed lots of alcohol, which is usually a good sign as it was with this bottle. Upon tasting it, the wine revealed a fruity, over the top thick wine, not the vapor base I was expecting. On the front of the tongue is a pleasing Adam’s sour cherry flavor, one of my favorites. The finish is long an strong and has very little evidence of oak in its nose or palate. For $20, this is an excellent wine.
[...] also fast, in control and with lots of points. Good finish to the day at 3:30 pm. Time for a nap, bottle of wine and to prepare to do it all again [...]