Reviews
and Awards by Vintage:
Firesteed 2003 Oregon Pinot Gris Awards
- 86 Points "Highly Recommended" : Beverage Tasting Institute
- Silver: 2006 Tasters Guild International Wine Judging
- Silver: 2006 Riverside International Wine Compeition
- Bronze: 2005 International Eastern Wine Competition
- Bronze: 2005 Chicago Value Wine Challenge
Firesteed 2003 Oregon Pinot Gris Reviews
88 Firesteed 2003 Pinot Gris (Oregon); $10. Firesteed goes from strength to strength; this is their best Gris to date, enhanced perhaps by the unusually warm vintage. Its ripe fruit tastes like biting into a juicy pear picked right off the tree. Succulent, round and sweetly spicy, with noticeable residual sugar but very appealing semi-tropical flavors.
"Best of Year 2005", The Wine Enthusiast, December 2005
2003 Firesteed Oregon Pinot Gris: Like an English herb garden, this locally produced gris smells of mint, parsley and slate and has a soft, minty, herbal palate. Serve it alongside roasted chicken and find it for approximately $14 at Bales Cedar Mill Thriftway Marketplace; Northwest Best Fred Meyer and Fred Meyer Gateway; Hollywood West, Peninsula, Scappoose of Tigard; Hank's Thriftway; Lamb's Wilsonville Thriftway Marketplace; Target at Fairview and Mall 205; and Thurman Market.
"Defy snobs and try a bottle of fresh, reliable pinot gris", The Oregonia, August 2006
Summertime wines, I think, should be like summer clothes - light, colorful, flattering, low-maintenance, casual and chic. Not too heavy, not too tannic, not too alcoholic and certainly not too demanding of our time or attention.
What they should have is something generous to contribute in the way of flavor. The world already has more than enough generic wines, animal wines, doctored-up soda-pop wines and what-the-heck-was-that-I-just-swallowed? wines.
For this Summer Case, I have tried to keep prices hovering in the $10-and-less range, though some inevitably creep a bit higher. On the other hand, if you poke around, you'll find many of these wines selling for less than the price listed here. To make it easier to order these wines, distributors are listed in parenthesis. If I even find a great $3-$4 wine, believe me you'll read about it in these pages. Until then, better to drink half as much of a really nice $7-$8 wine, don't you agree?
White Wines
Firesteed 2003 Pinot Gris ($10): Firesteed goes from strength to strength; this is their best gris to date, enhanced perhaps by the unusually warm 2003 vintage in Oregon. Ripe fruit tastes exactly like biting into a juicy pear picked right off the tree. Succulent, round and sweetly spicy, with noticeable residual sugar and semitropical fruit flavors.
"Wines for summer, from bubbly to red" Paul Gregutt, The Seattle Times, August 24, 2005
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