A tasting note

Have not had too much wine recently but the ones I have had have been very good. On Friday night of this previous weekend I enjoyed the 2004 Jacques Puffeney Pinot Noir. We had a Jura tasting in the store recently and Asimov recently blogged about Jura so I was feeling Jurasstic and needed a fix. This bottle was tasted at the store during our tasting and showed fabulously. It opened up austere and with high acid and only a hint of red fruit. There was some new oak there but I knew the fruit was so solid it would suck up that oak and integrate beautifully. Within an hour it did and this was a very enjoyable beverage. High acid, dense sweet fed fruits, loads of earth and mineral and a long finish that is accented by that lip-smacking acidity. Methinks this needs five years in the cellar to sort itself out but if you have to drink it now a 2 hour decant is in order to smooth it out.