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Mahoney Pinot Noir - $16.99

Wine Details

Price: $16.99
Producer: Mahoney Vineyards
Region: Carneros
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Container Size: 750 ML
Flavors:
  • Red Wine

Product Description

  • The best of our 40 lots of Pinot Noir from Mahoney Ranch and Las Brisas Vineyard are blended into this complex wine, showcasing seven distinct clones grown in diverse microclimates and soils. The wine displays wonderfully structured mouthfeel accompanied by layer upon layer of abundant red fruit flavors and varietal spice.

Expert Ratings

Ratings   Vintage Source Flavors
CGCW - 91 Details: Francis Mahoney is a tireless champion of Carneros Pinot and a pioneering figure in its development, and, as this recent estate bottling shows, he has not lost his touch with the grape. The wine is rich, ripe and very well-filled with plentiful cherryish fruit and complementary elements of toasty oak spice. It is full and supple on the palate with fine acidity running its length, and its very open and outgoing style tags it as one for drinking over the next three or four years. 2004 CGCW spice, toasty oak
CGCW - 85 Details: Confected sweetness comes across as a principal component of this clean, but essentially limited wine, and, even if offering up token notes of red cherries and dried flowers here and there, it is a rather plain varietal Jane and does no more than it must to get passing grades. 2004 CGCW
Tanzer - 88 Details: ($36) Good bright, dark red. Cherry, berries, cola, earth, underbrush and sexy oak on the nose, all lifted by a violet topnote. Broad, sweet and floral; not particularly fleshy or complex but suave and fine-grained. Finishes firm, with even tannins. 2003 Tanzer berries, cola, earth, oak, red cherry, violet
WineEnthusiast - 86 Details: Fairly tannic fare from Carneros Creek’s Francis Mahoney, and not showing much now, but it may be a keeper. You’ll find a rich and interesting melange of tobacco, earth and herbs, with a tease of black cherry and spice. Very dry and crisp on the finish. 2002 WineEnthusiast black cherry, earth, herbs, spice, tobacco

Food Pairings

Category Pairing
Red Meat Beef, Roast Pork Tenderloin w/Sage, Glazed Pork, Grilled or Roast Leg, Grilled or Broiled Chops or Rack of Lamb, Veal
Pasta & Grains Pasta with Truffles
Poultry & Eggs Roast Duck, Game Birds
Vegetables Beets, Truffles
Fish or Shellfish Poached Salmon, Seared Ahi Tuna, Grilled Ahi Tuna, Sashimi
Sauces Red Wine Sauce

Wine Terms

Name Value
Carneros This small section of Northern California is situated at the base of both the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. Carneros has made its reputation with its Pinot Noirs, which are filled with strawberry, cherry, spice, and chocolate, and are very rich and seductive. Chardonnay is also excellent, very buttery but not too fat.
Pinot Noir (pee noh nwahr)—A tricky grape to grow, Pinot Noir makes some of the best wines in the world. The prototype wine is red Burgundy from France but Oregon, California, New Zealand, and parts of Australia also produce good Pinot Noir. The wine is lighter in color than Cabernet or Merlot with relatively high alcohol, medium-to-high acidity, and medium-to-low tannin. Its flavors and aromas can be very fruity or earthy and woodsy, depending on how it is grown. It is rarely blended with other grapes.
United States Wineries exist in all fifty states, but the most predominant (and best) wine comes from Northern California, Oregon, and Washington State, with New York gaining a foothold in the industry. American wines make up about 75% of all wine sales in the US. The appellation system uses the term AVA (American Viticultural Area) to determine where wines were produced, but grape varieties can be planted anywhere in the country. American wineries generally use varietal labeling, and government regulations require that the variety on the label must make up at least 75% of the blend (in Oregon it’s 90%). The words reserve, special selection, private reserve, classic, and so on have no legal definition in the US. Some wineries use these terms to indicate their better wines; others use the words as a marketing tool to move lower quality wines off the shelf.
California California produces the majority of wine made in the United States. Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc, Zinfandel and Pinot Noir dominate the wine production in California, but many other varietials thrive in the California climate. Many fine wines are produced in California using Mediterranean grapes.