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We did decide to have one of the our special wines over the weekend. It was a very special purchase in the Fall of 2004. We had a very memorable experience at this winery and this wine is a great memory of the place and time. It was the end of our first day of tastings in Sonoma, California with our good friends Keith and Susan, and we arrived at White Oak with about 5 minutes before closing.  As we parked and walked towards the entrance one of the tasting room staff was heading to close up shop. We ran to the door and pleaded our case to come in for a quick tasting and promised we would purchase something. She relented and we proceeded to have a great time at the tasting table and the staff was really fun and fantastic considering we kept them late.  We kept our promise and purchased some wine including this bottle ($25 USD at the time) which has since traveled across the US and back up into Canada since that time so we had no idea how this wine might have survived. U...

This evening's wine choice was a 2009 Meridian Pinot Noir from Napa and at $13.99 a pretty good value.  It was a nice wine, not anything amazing but for the price it was a solid purchase.  The wine had the typical Pinot Noir look with some transparency in the wine but the tastes were of vanilla and strawberries.  Not sure if there is Oak at play or not but we are sure that the wine has some unique characters that make it a good Monday night wine.  We enjoyed the movie Sideways like many other Wine Lovers and we were trying to find an appropriate quote to use, this one stood out: Jack: Man! That's tasty! Miles Raymond: That's 100% Pinot Noir. Single vineyard. They don't even make it any more. Jack: Pinot Noir? Miles Raymond: Mmm-hmm. Jack: Then how come it's White? Miles Raymond: [laughs] Oh, Jesus. Don't ask questions like that up in wine country. They'll think you're some kind of dumbshit, OK? To shamelessly steal an idea from Gary Vayn...