2006 Merry Edwards Pinot Noir
Grape Variety: Pinot Noir
Region: Russian River Valley, California
Food pairing: Manchego cheese and lavender honey
If you're familiar with Merry Edwards and her notoriously short-supplied wines, I'll give you a minute to finish jumping up and down. If you're not, begin jumping now. I'll give you a minute.Just last week, we returned from a visit to the Merry Edwards winery in the Russian River Valley, where we tasted her Pinot Noirs from both the 2006 and 2007 vintage. While all of Merry's single-vineyard bottlings are indeed stunning, what struck us most was just how incredible her appellation Pinots (she makes one from the Russian River Valley and one from the Sonoma Coast) really are.
Pinot as it should be, this wine is dark fruited without being too "dense" for the characteristically light varietal, and carries bright, long-lived acidity without even bordering on tart. Most charmingly, underlying the beautiful berry fruit and clean, silky mouthfeel is just the lightest aroma of flowers, maybe lilacs, that seems all the more fitting when you see the garden-lined vineyards Merry farms in the Russian River Valley. Enjoy. (Just don't jump with a full glass.)
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