You’re going to read about three La Crema wines from the same vintage but from different area of California that I drank on three different night …
(November 7, 2020) … It all started with the 2014 Monterey. Now I loved visiting Monterey County, they talked a lot about cool climate, which is definitely nothing new for someone from Ontario – so I do have a soft spot for many wines from this part of the state. Sour cherry and red cherry along with white pepper and nice acidity plus there is a nice little tannin bite; fresh and lively with a nice dry, medium-length finish, there’s even a little licorice in here.
(November 10, 2020) … It was not my intention to drink another La Crema Pinot Noir on this night, nor was I going to have all three in the same month, but once you start (it’s like Lay’s potato chips “bet ya can’t have just one”) … I was so impressed with the Monterey version that I decided to grab the Russian River Valley offering (2014). Big spicy dark fruit (a la black cherry) with good acidity and a punch of strawberry and rhubarb – I even decided to put a little chill on this one and it really got that red fruit to pop, plus it seemed to add a little tobacco into the mix … as it opens the acidity kept everything in balance and there was just hint of white pepper which settled nicely onto the finish.
(November 15, 2020) … It’s now been a week since this experiment started and I am pulling the last bottle of La Crema Pinot 2014 from my cellar, Los Carneros – this one is black cherry, black pepper and smoke with hints of floral; the tannins and the acidity are present with the tannins being a little more dominant here than in any of the previous two wines. Probably my least favourite of the three, but they were all still pretty good as a whole.
