Chehalem Cerise (Gamay Noir) 1999
Varietal: Other Red Wine
Vineyard: Chehalem
Region: Willamette Valley, Oregon
This is a deeply extracted, blackish purple gamay noir with great fruit and acid density. One gets the idea it could stand without a glass. There is bright acidity from the vintage, to the degree that it had difficulty-finishing malolactic, so it will maintain its brightness and fruit for a while. The wine has deep and dusty black fruit, bordering on cassis or an old-style deeply extracted zinfandel, laced with chocolate and fine tannin. From a one-ton/acre harvest, this could not be a bigger mouthful of fruit!
Alcohol: 13.9% by volume
