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<A HREF="http://www.SidewaysWineClub.com" TITLE="SidewaysWineClub.com"><IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/sideways/sideways.jpg" ALT="SidewaysWineClub.com" NAME="SidewaysWineClub.com" BORDER=0></A> <H1>Loring Wine Company, 2007 Pinot Noir, "Russell Family" -- SidewaysWineClub.com Shopping Cart</H1> $50.00 -- A big, well-balanced pinot with lush ripe fruit and moderate alcohol and lighter body than Loring's earlier style. <IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/sideways/images/Logo5.jpg" WIDTH=150 ALIGN=right ALT="Loring Wine Company, 2007 Pinot Noir, "Russell Family"" NAME="Loring Wine Company, 2007 Pinot Noir, "Russell Family"" BORDER=0 HSPACE=10> <center>"93 Points" J. Laube, Wine Spectator "93 Points" Pinot Report</center> Tasting Notes I highly recommend decanting this dense, purple wine for several hours, or at the very least, lingering for as many hours as you watch it come alive in your glass!  A bit of cellaring (~18 months, I'd guess) will help tame the tannins in this youthful wine. Look for aromas of ripe black cherry, sweet spice, and a whisper of vanilla.  This soft pinot is in hte new style of Loring wine - not the blockbuster pinots of yore - featuring sweet red fruits including cherry and cranberry and tannins with the edges rounded off. The Vineayrd  The west-facing Russell Family Vineyard is cooled by breezes from the Pacific ocean, which take over at night, overcoming the heat of the day to maintain the acidity in this well-balanced wine. The Winemaker Owner Brian Loring was a raving pinot lover for decades before the wine bug finally bit so hard he sidelined a perfectly good day job to learn his craft and start his winery. Now he uses fruit from 14 of the best pinot noir vineyards on the West Coast, producing micro-quantities from each. And yes, each is bottled separately in a vineyard-designated bottling. Brian's total production is just 7,500 cases, so rough math tells us he makes just a shade more than 500 cases per vineyard. I can't imagine the punishment one must go through, schedule-wise, when crafting this many wines. Then to only have such small quantities to sell for your efforts... I doff my cap to the Lorings! Now I must tell you, I found Loring's prior pinot bottlings to be cross-dressing as Syrah or maybe Zinfandel from Amador county. Hot. Big. Not what I had in mind for pinot. Apparently, neither did Brian, for the Loring wines are now soft, elegant and approachable, with restrained alcohol (14%) and fruit so that some of the vineyard's characteristics show through. Much mo' bettah! A Note On Screw Caps After having just about enough of TCA problems from his natural corks, Brian has decided to close all of his bottles with screwcaps. Now, I have no problem with screwcaps. But they can be a surprise when someone orders a bottle of $50 wine. So I asked Brian about this, and he said <center>"I want people to enjoy my wine as I intended it to be when I made it. Cork taint was ruining as much as 8% of my production, and my buyers often thought that was how I WANTED my wine to taste! I simply couldn't afford to continue using them. And since I intend for my wines to be enjoyed within a 3-5 years of release, this is the perfect closure."</center> Cheers, Dave the Wine Merchant <LI>SKU: LWC-PN-RUSS-07 Other products in the category <A HREF="http://www.nexternal.com/sideways/Category2" TITLE="All Wines (alphabetically)">All Wines (alphabetically)</A>: <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/sideways/Product943 TITLE="Adelaida Cellars, 2005 Cabernet">Adelaida Cellars, 2005 Cabernet</A> -- A deep and earthy Cabernet, from Paso Robles West Side <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/sideways/Product888 TITLE="Adelaida Cellars, 2005 Reserve Cabernet, Viking Estate Vineyard">Adelaida Cellars, 2005 Reserve Cabernet, Viking Estate Vineyard</A> -- The wine that is the jewel in the portfolio of Adelaida Cellars, from Paso Robles famed West Side <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/sideways/Product1019 TITLE="Alain Normand, La Roche Vineuse, 2007 White Burgundy (Old Vines)">Alain Normand, La Roche Vineuse, 2007 White Burgundy (Old Vines)</A> -- White Burgundy is the home of Chardonnay, and still the classic sign post for its most elegant expression <LI><A HREF=http://www.nexternal.com/sideways/Product1037 TITLE="Andrew Lane, 2005 Merlot, St. Helena">Andrew Lane, 2005 Merlot, St. Helena</A> -- Merlot? 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