Today I get back to my wine drinking roots! One of
the first mentionable and expensive wines I had was a Duckhorn
Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 1997 from Napa. Then, it was a really
wine "hooking"! I have no idea how the Cabernet Sauvignons
from Duckhorn do nowadays As far as I know they still have a very
renowned name in the Napa business. Anyway, today's wine is a product
of a Duckhorn branch called Decoy in Anderson Valley AVA. The most
northern AVA in California. This Pinot is the little brother to the
by far better known and much more expensive Goldeneye Pinot Noir.
Some years ago I had the opportunity to taste this Goldeneye. A once
in a lifetime Pinot Noir experience I would not like to miss for all
the wine in the world. Not because it was so fantastic or remarkable.
Certainly not! More because it was so extreme. It had not a lot to do
with features of Pinot Noir I so much adore. Maybe it was the best
caricature of high-quality Pinot Noir I ever had. A pure poster-boy
of Californian Pinot Noir as one might expect it to be. But that was
then and a very different Pinot. Let's see how the little brother was
doing.
Besides the Decoy there were some additional Pinots from Burgundy and a Stellenbosch guy for dessert!
