On Dec 13, 2:03*pm, santiago > wrote:
> DaleW > wrote :
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> > 2009 Wind Gap Pinot Gris
> > Skin contact (orange) wine I assume, looks like a rose - a darker rose
> > at that. I really didn t like this at first- seemed austere and overly
> > herby. But improved a lot with air - smoky, cranberry and red plum.
> > full, long. B-/C+ *day one, B on day 2.
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> I think I had one bottle of this... but no, it was the 2008, and I found it
> really delicious. And I thought it would be the kind of wine to appeal you,
> since I found it quite loiresque.
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> Perhaps 2008 and 2009 are different beasts! but it feels nice to have
> tasted one U.S. wine that shows up in the newsgroup.
>
> Regards,
>
> s.

You make a good point Santiago regarding U.S. wines. I'm always
surprised when I travel at the lack of U.S. wines I find outside of
the U.S. I wouldn't go to France or Spain or Italy, etc. and order an
American wine to begin with (I'm usually there in the first place to
taste the local wines) but when I do find American wines they usually
tend to be the mass produced plonk coming from wine factories and not
the good artisinal wines. I found very few new world wines in Europe
in general and what I did find tended to be Aussie shiraz so they've
done a good job at marketing their wines internationally. It's
unfortunate that more of iconic new world wines don't make it our of
our hemisphere as some of them are incredibly good or at least very
interesting.