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Today's post is St. Innocent's 2014 Pinot Noir from their Freedom Hill Vineyard. This Willamette Valley Pinot is a New World alternative to Burgundy. St. Innocent's owner and winemaker Mark Vlossak recently moved his winery to the South Salem Hills in Oregon. This deep rich wine offers dark cherry, red fruit and spice notes which blend well with with a minerality/earthiness that is distinctive of Oregon Pinot Noir. Freedom Hill Vineyard produces Pinot noirs with structure, depth, and richness as well as a strong sense of minerality. The vineyard, owned and managed by Dan Dusschee, is located in the foothills of the Coast Range mountains which helps to keep the vineyard cool at night. Cool nights help to maintain the acidity in the wine and help cool the grapes so they do not ripen too quickly and the combination of ripe tannins and acidity produces Pinot noir with great structure. The grapes were de-stemmed and fermented in stainless steel with natural yeasts and without the use of Sulphur Dioxide. After light pressing the wine is aged in a combination of French oak barrels (25% new) for 16 months before bottling by gravity. . . . . #stinnocent #stinnocentwinery #oregon #wine #oregonpinot #pinotnoir #newworldwines #freedomhillvineyard #pinot #markvlossak #dandusschee #redwine #willamettevalley #delicious #greatwine #wineislove #deliciouswine #wineislove #nyc #nyc🗽 #nyclife #nyclifestyle #scenefromny #scenefromnyc #washingtonheights #newyorker #newyorkcity #newyorkny #newyorkcitylife #winelover (at Washington Heights, Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/nycmanofmanytalents/p/BrMgyc1n3qU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2zmfz0b3hjfe

The legend of Santa Inocencia, whose name translates to St Innocent, includes a tale of a young girl who is killed by her father after taking Holy Communion. The story: A young girl named Inocencia from Mexico who listened to her classmates talking about receiving their first communion and wanting to participate in the ceremony as well. However, when she told her father about her desire to convert to the faith he hit her and forbid her from taking part in “such nonsense.”  Nonetheless, Inocencia was drawn to the catechism classes and encouraged by a nun who found her listening while hiding outside that she should take the Eucharist. “Better to have the good as ally than evil” the nun said. When the big day arrived the nun gave Inocencia a white lace dress and the young girl received the Eucharist. Upon returning home she could not control her feelings of happiness and went to tell her father. When she found him in the kitchen he was angered by the news and stabbed his daughter in the chest (or stomach). After committing this crime, the man fled and neighbors found Inocencia’s lifeless body. They brought her back to the cathedral where she had received the Holy Communion and laid her there to rest in peace. Through a turn of events, the body eventually ended up in the Guadalajara Cathedral , where the face was preserved with wax. #catedraldeguadalajara #guadalajara #mexico #santainocencia #stinnocent #leyenda #legend #mummified #wax #momia #momias #itravel #letstakeatrip #letsseetheworld (at Catedral Guadalajara, Jalisco)