2023 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley
92 Rating NW Wine Report
92 Rating Paul Gregutt Former wine writer for Wine Enthusiast Magazine
Our flagship Pinot Noir showcases the unique growing season that shapes each vintage. Each vineyard is harvested, fermented and aged separately in French oak barrels for 10 months before blending and bottling.
Bold aromas of fresh cut tobacco roll into hints of leather. Fruit flavors of pomegranate flows into blackberry notes that introduce the wine. Bright cherry-cola and dark plum are lifted by balanced acidity. With hints of spice, the wine finishes with a silky texture and lengthy, lingering finish.
Each vineyard produced separately in small 1.5 ton fermenters with the use of manual punch downs of the caps two times a day during fermentation. The wines from each vineyard after fermentation was then stored in French oak barrels for a number of months before being blended and bottled. Wines were bottled in Screwcap Closures to retain it great fruit flavors and aromas.
NW Wine Reports Sean Sullivan
92 points, Critic’s Choice
"This wine comes from a six vineyard blend, with an average 35 years of vine age, and it way overdelivers. The aromas open with notes of black tea, flower, fresh herb, dark strawberry, and red cherry. Medium-bodied, exquisitely tart, balanced fruit flavors follow. A lengthy finish caps it off. It’s a complete delight and a superb value to boot. Decant. Screwcap. 1,056 cases produced."
Paul Gregutt
92 points
"Aromatic and inviting, this is packed with strawberry and cherry fruit. I used it to test out two radically different stems – a $6 wine glass and a $100 wine glass. The wine was terrific in both of them, more rarefied in the more elegant and expensive stem; bolder and blockier in the budget glass. Whatever your jam, it’s a wine to behold, a lush and fruit-powered golden retriever of a Pinot which will bring a smile as it bounds across the palate. 1056 cases"
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Seven small vineyards located in the heart of the Willamette Valley. Many of the vineyards are over 15 years old and all dry farmed. Soil types are mostly Alluvial Soil (a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains) and Bellpine series(consists of moderately deep, well drained soils that formed in colluvium and residuum derived from sedimentary rocks). Clones include: Pommard, Wädenswil,115, 777 and 667 and the average yield for each vineyard is about 2.25 tons per acre.
