Oregon 2010 Pinot Noir: The Chronicle recommends

sfgate.com (Oct 15 2012) Wineries in the News

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   Oregon has enjoyed great Pinot Noir vintages before, for sure. The 2008 wines, for instance, inspired sheer glee amid members of our tasting panel a few years ago. But at what point does a great vintage, or a string of them, translate into a larger sense of greatness?

   I'm reminded of how Burt Williams of Williams Selyem described his hunt for great California Pinot Noir in the 1970s. He would find one for a vintage or two, and then it would revert to the ho-hum. "I surmised," he said, "that what they were doing, they were doing it right ...

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