The Wine: 2007 Pinot Noir
The Price: $19.99 at Metropolitan Market (marked down from $29.99).
There are a few reasons that I decided to review this wine. First, it's the first time I've seen Torii Mor for sale in Washington. Second, I visited the Torii Mor tasting room about two years ago, and was pretty disappointed. I was pretty harsh on my review of their tasting room, and I thought they were due a wine review. The third reason that I wanted to review this wine is that they recently started following me on Twitter, so they were at the fore of my mind.
The wine was stopped with a natural cork, always a plus in my book. It was decanted an hour before tasting.
The wine is deep red in color, and has aromas of cherry, tobacco, mint and moss. The wine has flavors of cherry and oak, with a very subtle pepper finish. It's a fairly good Pinot Noir. But I am much more enthusiastic about it at $20 than I would be at $30. I think it's a bit thin and missing a the depth of flavor to compete in the $30 price range. That said, I think that this wine compares quite favorably against the $30 Pinot Noirs I've sampled from California.
This wine is far better than I recall the last wine I sampled from Torii Mor, so I'm glad that I was able to review it. As I said in my write up of their tasting room, I really liked their Port a lot. It's good to see that they're making strides with their Pinot Noir. Oregon is the quintessential Pinot Noir producing state, so the bar is fairly high. By comparison, I find this wine to be far superior to Cloud Line, and a couple of notches below Sokol Blosser. Not a bad position to be in. Given their improvements over the last two years, I can see them becoming one of the premier Oregon Pinot Noir producers in the near future.
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