While it's the wine itself that takes the spotlight,
points & perspective can play a supporting role when a wine takes center stage on the palate.
Personally, a standing ovation on my palate was offered
as a result of the performance by Ghost Hill Cellars 2009 Pinot Noir.
Feminine characteristics embodied in the '09 Bayliss Bower Pinot Noir
were accompanied by masculine traits sipped & swallowed in the '09 Prospector's Reserve Pinot Noir.
If every story does indeed have two sides,
the tale of what Ghost Hill Cellars has done in 2009 is dually delicious.
Cheers to a Pinot Noir duo to die for!

My review aside, Stephen Tanzer provides a prologue to these bottles of Pinot Noir
that validates the value of these beautiful wines.
Take a look at these reviews just recently released.

Cheers,
Allie Merrick
www.mywinewords.com

2009 Pinot Noir Prospector's Reserve Yamhill-Carlton District ($60)
Bright ruby.  Intensely perfumed bouquet of blackberry, cherry-cola, black tea, allspice and violet.
Ripe and broad on entry, then firmer in the mid-palate,
offering sappy dark berry flavors underscored by a smoky mineral quality.
Puts on weight with aeration and finishes with resonating smoke and jammy dark fruit notes.
A bigger wine than the regular Bayliss-Bower bottling:
I suspect that some tasters will prefer that wine's finesse to this one's richness. 90(+?)

2009 Pinot Noir Bayliss Bower Vineyard Yamhill Carlton District ($42)
Vivid ruby.  Ripe cherry and black raspberry on the nose, with complicating notes of smoky herbs, rose and spicecake.  Fleshy and smooth in texture, with gently sweet cherry and dark berry flavors picking up a touch of anise with air.
Shows the ripeness of the vintage to good effect, finishing broad and long.
This will be drinkable soon. 90

Source: Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Josh Raynolds) via Wine Access