The Winery: Duck Pond Cellars
The Wine: 2006 Pinot Noir
The Price: $19.99 at QFC
Duck Pond Cellars is located in Oregon's Willamette Valley. I've always liked their labels. Each wine has a picture of a duck on it. The Pinot Noir has a picture of a Bufflehead landing in water.
The wine is dark red, but perhaps a little lighter in color than other Pinot Noirs that I have sampled lately.
The Duck Pond Pinot Noir has scents of chocolate, blackberry and plum.
The wine has a fairly fruity flavor, and is less complex and full-bodied than I would expect. It has flavors of raspberries, blackberries and strawberries, with a fairly aggressive pepper finish. The wine is not as silky rich as I have come to expect from Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs. It's fairly thin and under-developed.
While not a bad wine, it's also not a great wine. For $20, there are plenty of other wines I would buy before this one. But if you prefer a fruity Pinot Noir with a peppery finish, this could be the wine for you.
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