St. Innocent Temperance Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2013

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Varietal

Region

Producer

Vintage
2013

Size
750ML

ABV
12.5%

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

The 2013 Temperance Hill has a nose of wild cherry, blackberry, and dried peach, with hints of clove, earth and sweet smoke. The dark fruits, sweet spices and savory notes carry throughout the palate with wild blackberries, coffee, and hints of smoky char. It is very dense on the palate and the darker, earthy flavors fade into complex, dried fruit into the finish. Temperance Hill has a sense of "purity" and precision that is the hallmark of this cool site in the Eola-Amity Hills with this vintage being more earth-driven. This purity makes it a great match with simple culinary preparations and grilled foods.

Professional Ratings

  • 91
    Beet root and black raspberry scents and flavors get this wine rolling, with a sliver of licorice peeking through. Subtle hints of vanilla, cola and café latté add further interest. Picked at less than two tons per acre, it has impressive ripeness despite the low alcohol.

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St. Innocent Winery, Oregon
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St. Innocent Winery was founded in May 1988 by Mark Vlossak, the current winemaker and president, and eight investors. Ten tons of grapes were crushed the first fall, producing 396 cases of still and 176 cases of sparkling wine. Production increased to our full capacity of 6800 cases in 2004. The winery is located in Salem, Oregon, at the southeast corner of the Eola Hills, in the mid-Willamette valley.

St. Innocent produces small lot, handmade wines: seven single vineyard Pinot noirs and a blended Pinot noir called the Villages Cuvée, two Chardonnay from Dijon clone plantings, two Pinot gris, and a Pinot blanc.

The philosophy behind the winemaking at St Innocent is that the function of wine is to complement and extend the pleasure of a meal. The characteristics of a wine should enhance different food and flavor combinations - this interaction amplifies the pleasure of a meal. To this end, St. Innocent wines tend toward higher acid levels, and more diverse and balanced flavors.

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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”

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Running north to south, adjacent to the Willamette River, the Eola-Amity Hills AVA has shallow and well-drained soils created from ancient lava flows (called Jory), marine sediments, rocks and alluvial deposits. These soils force vine roots to dig deep, producing small grapes with great concentration.

Like in the McMinnville sub-AVA, cold Pacific air streams in via the Van Duzer Corridor and assists the maintenance of higher acidity in its grapes. This great concentration, combined with marked acidity, give the Eola-Amity Hills wines—namely Pinot noir—their distinct character. While the region covers 40,000 acres, no more than 1,400 acres are covered in vine.

EPC31730_2013 Item# 149452

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