2000 PISONI Pinot Noir (Library Wines) -- THE OJAI VINEYARD Shopping Cart -- Noir Pinot PISONI 2000

<H1>2000 PISONI Pinot Noir -- THE OJAI VINEYARD Shopping Cart</H1> $75.00 -- 2000 PISONI Pinot Noir <div align="left" class="italowine"> Santa Lucia Highlands </div> <div align="left">Below is Adam's note upon the wine's release in 2002: </div> <div class="NewStyleSheet"> <div align="left"> <div class="NewStyleSheet"> <div align="left"> I was flabbergasted with the press’s reaction to this wine. Early on I think I developed a bit of winemakers’ bias against it. First off, it wasn’t easy to make. After getting over the difficulties of making it, I found this wine so obvious and delicious from the barrel that I assumed it didn’t have the stuffing to turn into something really special. It was only a few weeks ago, when I had a conversation with a wacko Belgian wine guy I know, that I began to take this wine seriously. He is the kind of person who is altogether too happy to tell me how bad a wine I have made and or how un-price worthy it is compared to what you can find in (the old) Europe (or even in the new Europe, which is, as far as I can tell, Bulgaria and Spain). He is certainly not one to give idle compliments. Therefore, at first I thought he was teasing me when he said he had served this wine to a group of serious French winemakers who had raved about the wine, but he wasn’t. Our 1999 and 2001, which I had him taste along with the 2000, are rather bigger, more tannic wines that--for him--are out of balance. (I think they are even better, though in need of some more bottle age.) However, I can now see the beauty of the 2000. The wine is definitely easy to enjoy today, but what it possesses is harmony that is uncommon for new world pinot noir. The aromas are of pretty, beguiling pinot fruit and not of oak, and the flavors are silky and rich, yet have the proper bite in the finish to give the wine length. This experience of having someone whose palate I respect tell me something new about a wine I crafted made me realize once more that wine tasting is not about objective analysis. It is emotional and subjective. It is as easy to fool yourself into believing a bad wine is good as it is to imagine the opposite. </div> </div> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></meta><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"></meta><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"></meta><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"></meta><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/THEOJA%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_filelist.xml"></link><style>  </style>To preserve its essence, the wine was not fined or filtered, and so quite a bit of natural sediment has acumulated during aging. So, to fully appreciate this Pisoni Pinot Noir, decanting is essential. </div> </div> <LI>SKU: 00PNP Other products in the category <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Category3" TITLE="Library Wines">Library Wines</A>: <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product51 TITLE="1996 STOLPMAN Syrah">1996 STOLPMAN Syrah</A> -- 1996 STOLPMAN Syrah <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product58 TITLE="1997 HENRY DANIEL Syrah">1997 HENRY DANIEL Syrah</A> -- 1997 HENRY DANIEL Syrah <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product88 TITLE="1997 TALLEY Chardonnay">1997 TALLEY Chardonnay</A> -- 1997 TALLEY Chardonnay <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product56 TITLE="1998 CALIFORNIA Syrah">1998 CALIFORNIA Syrah</A> -- 1998 CALIFORNIA Syrah <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product84 TITLE="2001 STOLPMAN Syrah">2001 STOLPMAN Syrah</A> -- 2001 STOLPMAN Syrah <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product55 TITLE="2001 VOGELZANG Syrah">2001 VOGELZANG Syrah</A> -- 2001 VOGELZANG Syrah <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product29 TITLE="2003 THOMPSON Syrah">2003 THOMPSON Syrah</A> -- 2003 THOMPSON Syrah <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product57 TITLE="2003 MELVILLE Syrah">2003 MELVILLE Syrah</A> -- 2003 MELVILLE Syrah <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product27 TITLE="2005 FE CIEGA Pinot Noir">2005 FE CIEGA Pinot Noir</A> -- 2005 PINOT NOIR FE CIEGA - Santa Rita Hills <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product9 TITLE="2005 CLOS PEPE Pinot Noir">2005 CLOS PEPE Pinot Noir</A> -- 2005 CLOS PEPE Pinot Noir <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product47 TITLE="2005 PRESIDIO Syrah">2005 PRESIDIO Syrah</A> -- 2005 PRESIDIO Syrah <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/ojai/Product11 TITLE="2005 GRENACHE">2005 GRENACHE</A> -- 2005 GRENACHE <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com/ojai" TITLE="THE OJAI VINEYARD Products">THE OJAI VINEYARD Products</A> <A HREF="http://WWW.OJAIVINEYARD.COM">pinot noir</A> <A HREF="http://WWW.OJAIVINEYARD.COM">syrah</A> <A HREF="http://WWW.OJAIVINEYARD.COM">sauvignon blanc</A> <A HREF="http://WWW.OJAIVINEYARD.COM">chardonnay</A> <A HREF="http://WWW.OJAIVINEYARD.COM">grenache</A> <A HREF="http://WWW.OJAIVINEYARD.COM">california wine</A> <A HREF="http://WWW.OJAIVINEYARD.COM">ojai wine</A> <A HREF="http://WWW.OJAIVINEYARD.COM">best california pinot</A> <A HREF="http://WWW.OJAIVINEYARD.COM">best wine value</A> THE OJAI VINEYARD <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com" TITLE="shopping cart">shopping cart</A> powered by Nexternal