Last weekend, Jay and I took advantage of a rare opportunity to escape for more than one full turn of the earth and left the girls at the house with my parents. We drove the hour+ south to Yamhill County, Oregon - aka Pinot Noir Heaven. We got to eight wineries is somewhat under five hours on Sunday, which was "hard work" indeed. We were mostly looking for light wines that we can enjoy throughout the summer - whites, if we could find ones we liked, and maybe a couple of pinots. We got a dozen fine bottles... and a scrap metal rooster, but that's another post.
Monday evening, we enjoyed bottle #1 on the porch -
Panther Creek 2007 Willamette Valley Chardonnay. They are not selling this on their website, possibly because it was only bottled last month or possibly because Panther Creek is pretty much all about the pinot noir, but here is a link to the tasting notes. We are not big chardonnay folks, but we totally liked that it is an "unoaked" chardonnay, so it's really crisp and fruity and doesn't have the kind of heavy oaky thing going on that turns me off chardonnay. The tasting notes mention a "mineral" finish - and it really is evident (although it's the first time I've ever attached the word "mineral" to anything that I've ingested and meant it as a positive...) We got an extra bottle for my mom, and we could very well be trying to buy a case of this for drinking all the time in the nice weather.
This was the last winery we visited - It's located in an old power building in downtown McMinville - and it was the only place where we just chilled out and had a full glass of wine - just the two of us - and two chilled glasses of wine. How novel.
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