Quintay Pinot Noir 2007 (Chile)

We first tried this Wine at a tasting a little over a year ago and really enjoyed it, so much so that we purchased half a case and decided to age a few bottles. We opened a bottle immediately and really enjoyed it, about 6 months later opened another bottle and we were not very impressed, it seemed to be going through some sort of phase and tasted too mineraly and not many other flavors could be distinguished.  

A year passed and I opened another bottle...VERY GOOD!

Dark red in the glass. On the nose blackberry and cherry juice and quite a bit of herb and a wild intense aroma of outdoors, almost like you are smelling the vineyard itself. On the Palate red current, pepper, raspberry but there is something else, an intentness that is hard to describe like a wild berry or fruit you have never tasted before like something from the Garden of Eden. A lively very complex Pinot with plush juicy fruit and minerally notes on the finish.

Pinot Noir has been for a long time my most favored of wines. The flavors can be amazing, intense and unforgetable.

Pinot noir is a black wine grape variety of the species Vitis Vinifera. Noir meaning black in French and Pinot the French word for Pine alluding to the grape variety's tightly clustered dark purple pine cone-shaped bunches of fruit.

Pinot noir grapes are grown around the world, mostly in the cooler regions, but the grape is chiefly associated with the Burgandy region of France. It is widely considered to produce some of the finest wines in the world, but is a difficult variety to cultivate and transform into wine. It is one of the most difficult grapes to grow and make into fine wine. It is also one of the very best when it is done properly. It has very specific requirements for its growing conditions.  It needs warm days and cool nights. If Pinot Noir receives too little heat in the growing season, its wines are thin and pale.  If the growing season is too warm, the wines have an overripe, cooked flavor.