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Article: Going to extremes: Pinot Noir. (wine)
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- Sunset
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- April 1, 1997
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A really good wine is compelling, in large part, because it has a distinct personality. By "personality" I do not mean an identifiable character trait or two. After all, almost every wine has a couple of qualities that can be used to describe it: cherryish and wild, silky and smoky, or gaunt and tasting like burnt bacon - whatever.
No, personality is something more, though not easily described. A wine with personality has a soul, a spirit. A wine with personality is determined to express itself. Alas, such wines are not in the majority.
My own search for wines with personality usually brings me to the doorstep of Pinot Noir. Like countless other wine lovers, I ...