Davis Family 2007 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir
Another outlandishly good Pinot from Davis Family… I got 3 bottles 3 days ago and they’re already all gone. Not gonna be too creative with this one because I’m already more than half-drunk…
…but, to put things in perspective, let’s use the following anecdote: I uncorked and then immediately re-corked a bottle of an otherwise good Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot tonight– only because I’d had this Davis Pinot two nights running and the other (much more expensive) wine didn’t hold a candle to the Davis. So I corked the SCM wine back up and opened a new (and my last) Davis Family bottle.
The mouth feel on this wine is… well… crap… this is going to sound kind of queer for a straight guy to say… the mouth feel is velvety. In an effort to redeem myself I’ll get juvenile and say it’s velvety like a willing vagina. Happy now?
The notes say it’s “food friendly”, but I’m going to counter that by saying it’s far too good to waste on food. This one is a sipper– last night I held it on my tongue for a solid 30 seconds and it just kept on letting loose with damn near obscene goodness. At 5 seconds it said “how ’bout some ripe cherries?”. At 10 seconds it said “How ’bout some strawberries and cream?”. At 20 seconds it said “Did I mention there was a pound of butter in the strawberries and cream?”. At 30 seconds I was thinking about aged Guatemalan rum and a moist cuban cigar. Not once did I taste astringency, harsh tannins or get a pucker in my sphincter (or palate).
I can’t believe that something this good is supposedly good for your heart. God bless resveratrol and the winemakers that allow us to enjoy it in such a magnificent form. While I’m at it, I think I’ll praise some other shit I love that’s good for you: God bless blow jobs and surfing.
I’m giving this wine 120 points on my 100 point scale. I’ve been drinking far too much Pinot lately, and this is the best of the recent lot.
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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