Shout out from the Coast Range!
I know you’re just pushing our buttons with the whole “Orygone” thing but it’s pronounced “Lakeeni”. We tasted through their wines about five years ago. Nice folks. We have a magnum of theirs in the closet and I actually CAN fit my head in the punt! I wear it around the house until my wife makes me take it off.

QOTD: Quite often but really, heroin would be cheaper. Last one was Carlo & Julian Estate 2005. It’s a house favorite but hard to find outside the ‘hood. Big fans of Boedecker Cellars and DePonte too.

Your question of the day brought me out from lurkerland.

I grew up in Oregon (would you like a knife, or-a-gun?) and have mad love for Oregon pinots. My favs are Domaine Serene (pricey), King Estate, Erath and Stoller vineyards.

Last Oregon Pinot Noir: Domaine Serene 2003. Love it.

Rex Hill 2003 or 2004 (I forget). I was wonderful. My sis gave it for Christmas, we loved it so much that we had our fav liquor store owner buy one for us & my bro-in-law bought it out from under us (surprise!) for Thanksgiving. It was funny (but perhaps you had to be there).

I was rollin’ after you put your fingers in Lanchini’s punt, great metaphor about being around the block!
Last Pinot was a 2005 Hamacher, which was surprisingly more like a burgundian Pinot then an Oregon.

QOTD: no big “O” pinots, only rolled into Niagara PNs. Checking out burgs and other pinots now.

QOTD: Last Oregon pinot I tried was from Witness Tree – 2005 Benchmark which was excellent. There is a rich silky quality with their pinots that are just wonderful.

QOTD: Last Oregon pinot I tried was from Witness Tree – 2005 Benchmark which was excellent. There is a rich silky quality with their pinots that are just wonderful.

Loved Mott having the last word(s)!

QOTD: I have not had PN from Oregon. But it is now on my list of must buys.

Good Show, and have enjoyed some PNs in the past, but “Sideways” has driven the price for quality wines above my daily budget. Loved the tasting notes on EIEIO, so will be looking for that one in the local stores.

Joe Cortez reference and the Macho Man imitation – way well done due, i want more Randy Savage time man on WLTV- makes for a great episode.

QotD: Domaine Serene most recently but i bought Prive, Beaux Freres and Patty Green from the 06 vintage.

QOTD: Never had an Oregon PN. Great show!

QOTD: Next time we have friends over we’ll be trying 3 Willamette Valley, ORYGUN wines – a Montinore Estate Pinot Noir, as well as a pinot gris and a riesling from other wineries. Since our aim is to to sample $20 and under bottles, the EIEIO won’t make the list (though the “Ol’ McMott Had A Farm” line was almost enough to offset the $9 extra). Maybe we’ll buy a few Slim Jims as stand-ins.

Our preferred local shop is big into the Oregon PNs, so we’ve had AtoZ, Elk Cove, Chehelam, Erath and a couple others. Usually find them to be in the 87-89 range, which isn’t mind-blowing, but a pretty good QPR for Pinot these days.

QOTD…We do drink them occasionally (~1X/month) and we look for Oregon or Washington St., but there are much better values out there that keeps us away from Pinots. Its hard to buy a $30 bottle of Pinot when you can find a wine with similar body that will knock your socks off at less than half the price. Very difficult to find a value driven Pinot.

QOTD: Love the Oregon Pinot’s. My folk live there, so we tend to get to do some wine tours there at least once a year. Last one we had was the Rex Hill Chehalem Mtns Cuvee Pinot – it was very good. Just bought some “Jigsaw” Pinot from Oregon – have had friends say it is an exceptional value

QOTD: The most recent Oregon Pinot Noir we had was a 2005 Penner-Ash Dussin Vineyard PN and it was very, very good. Definitely more New World then Burgundian, but I still liked it quite a bit. I gave it 91 points.

QOTD: Most recent OPN was an ’05 Patty Green. Glad I have more.

2005 Soter from yamhill! delicious!

QOTD: Last Oregon Pinot I had was Domaine Serene Evenstad 2002. I really liked it but thought that there were a lot better offerings out there for the same or less money. Patricia Green comes to mind first. Not drinking as much Pinto as I used (but still buying the same ratio compated to others). I like my Pinots with a little age where they show that earthy character.

QOTD: Shea cellars & Skol Blosser

QOTD: Most recently had a Shea 2005 – not bad, but not earth shattering either. Hard to beat Penner Ash for a generally available, consistently good effort year after year, although not cheap either.

what up from oreGUN…..you should have contacted me if you were going to try pinot’s from oreGUN….I would have gotten you the hoooook up…. last one I drank was from St. Innocent White Rose 2003…the slut of all pinots, one of the best I ever had, it was the last bottle in the cellar and I finally tasted the dill pickles…never had before. a shout out to the two other pinots that I had not from oreGUN…Breggo, and Lily. you had them both on your show and they are awesome as well. great work. peace from oreGUN.

Humm, I don’t drink pinot, no.

QOTD. I had the Owen Roe Sharecroppers. I have found that Owen Roe has consistently good wines. Hey Gary…did you have fun in Boston?