Hey, it's Elizabeth Schneider, and this is a quick wine review from wine for normal people.

I'm going to talk about some specific wines that you can find in most stores and like the blog and

podcast the review is for people who like wine but not the snarberry that goes with it.

Today we're talking about the 2010 Oyster Bay Pinot Noir. The average retail

praise is around 1299. It can be less or more depending on where you live. And the

grapes for this wine were grown in Marlboro, New Zealand, which is really known for

Sauvignon Blanc. You may have had some really an outstanding

Sauvignon Blanc from Marlboro, but they are also producing some grape pino.

The wine has a redberry smell. It's like a raspberry or strawberry parfei if you will and it's got a kind of a musky spicy note to it. I thought of a campfire when I smelled a wine. It's earthy and like

dried dirt, but it's got a note of exotic spice like Sandalwood or Indian kind of spice.

So it's a great Pino. These are the components that you would

expect in a pino, a blend of earth, fruit, and spice and it tasted just like it smelled,

red berries and exotic spices. The oak gave it a nice warm spice flavor and you

know kind of cinnamon spice flavor and highlighted the fruit and didn't

overpower it and the tannas and the acid were in balance, so there wasn't too much

mouth drying, not too much mouth watering, really nice balance.

The alcohol level was a tad high for me, 13.5%, a little higher than

some other Pinot noir, especially the ones from Burgundy.

But it didn't ruin the wine.

It made it a little hot in your mouth.

If you don't like that sensation, be aware of that.

In terms of what to eat with it, we had it with an Asian ginger sesame rubbed chicken breast and it was a great pairing.

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