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Cooler is better for Oregon Pinot
Experienced hands excel with the more typical 2004s and 2005s
Monte Pitt emerges from his vineyard in Oregon's Willamette Valley, the heartland for the state's signature grape, Pinot Noir. As he walks across a concrete pad to the barebones tin-shed winery where he makes his Patton Valley Vineyard wines, he spits out the mouthful of Pinot Noir grapes that he's been chewing on.
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