Thanksgiving Back Up the (Red) Truck
2008 Belle Pente Dundee Hills Pinot Noir
The Ideal, All-American T-Day Pour
(Priced to Pour Generously)

Inevitably, we get a lot of frantic calls this week: "I need wine for Thanksgiving. It needs to work with sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts and Aunt Ida's thick, cheesy gratin. Aunt Ida doesn't really like wine. Uncle Orin is a wine snob.
... Oh, and can I get it delivered tomorrow?

Yes.

Yes, we have the perfect red wine for you, an Oregon Pinot from the heart of the Dundee Hills with all the versatility you need for this most complicated of holiday tables.

This year, even if Thanksgiving is just three days away and you’re not ready for it, we are. Yes, we love this holiday; we live for these kinds of wine pairing challenges. We’ve been thinking about this since, easily, early August.

2008 Evesham Wood Pinot Noir
Oregon's Famed Willamette Valley Delivers
Grace, Texture AND VALUE!
The Perfect Pinot Noir for the Holidays

Our favorite domestic Pinot Noir of 2009, Hands Down

Today's offer represents our first venture into Oregon's famed Willamette Valley. If this is a bit shocking given the world-renowned quality of these wines, explaining ourselves is easy enough. Two big issues have always gotten in our way: availability and price.

Today, however, we have found our Willamette Valley gem.

While the price was incredibly fair (especially given the quality of the material - we're talking about a cuvee that uses a healthy dose of fruit from the Temperance Hill Vineyard, made famous by Mark Vlossak at St. Innocent), we had to muscle our way in to get an allocation big enough to offer.

Still, given the quality and price on offer today, we expect a sell-out before the sun sets. (We wish we could source more, but we'll just have to wait till next year.)