A wine without a nose. Not quite as a bad as a person without a nose but pretty close. This wine actually smelled like alcohol; not over the top alcohol, but alcohol nonetheless. I really couldn't smell anything. The good news is that the wine had more flavors after the tasting: mainly a strawberry profile.
I've been to Torii Mor in the Willamette Valley and this is not one of their better efforts. It's not a bad wine and it's a relatively easy drinking pinot. BUT at $30/bottle you can find better valued pinots in Oregon, New Zealand or even now in Chile or Argentina. I'd give this effort an 87 and pass. Don't bypass this vineyard entirely as they have some more expensive pinots that have a lot more to offer.
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