Winemaker Notes
A fresh, vibrant, youthful violet, ruby red cherry color. Aromas are bright and of fresh red and dark red fruits, cherry candy, bonbon Anglaise, salted sweet candies, violets, blueberries, and gorgeous salinity. It dances across the palate in an irresistibly jazzy and tangy way. Beautiful and drinkable now, but also lots of darker notes, intrigue, and structure that begs you to age this wine to see how its peacock’s tail will unfold over the next ten years, or more! With time, this will be an absolute stunner.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Showing dimension, detail and a luxurious texture, this red features expressive flavors of raspberry and cherry that take on notes of rose petal, orange peel and savory tea as this builds richness on the long finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Pinot Noir Le Pré du Col Vineyard is elegant and energetic. It's scented of blueberry and pomegranate, while tones of licorice, orange peel and bitters emerge as it spends time in the glass. The light-bodied palate is delicate and silky with mouthwatering acidity and detailed, spicy flavors.
Bergstrom Wines is a family-owned and operated artisan producer of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay which was started in 1999 by Dr. John and Karen Bergstrom, with the help of their son Josh Bergstrom and his wife Caroline. Josh is general manager, vineyard manager and winemaker and pulls his expertise from his education in Burgundy, France and his 14 years experience making wines in Oregon's Northern Willamette Valley. Bergstrom focuses on hand-crafting small lots of wines from their fice estate vineyards carefully chosen from fice of Oregon's six wine-growing appellations. All estate acreage is farmed biodynamically and all wines express the wonderful diversity of Oregon's many great terroirs.
Bergström Wines consists of five estate vineyards totaling 84 acres that span across four of the Willamette Valley’s best appellations: The Bergström Vineyard, Silice Vineyard, Winery Block, Gregory Ranch and Le Pré du Col. Each estate vineyard is farmed without the use of harsh chemicals, systemic or fertilizers, and the winery produces approximately 10,000 cases of ultra-premium and extremely sought-after wine each year, including two Chardonnays and nine different Pinot Noirs.
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.”
Ribbon Ridge is a regular span of uplifted, marine, sedimentary soils (called Willakenzie), whose highest ridge elevations twist like a ribbon. An early settler from Missouri named Colby Carter noticed this unique topography and gave the region its name in 1865—though it wasn’t declared its own AVA until 140 years later, in 2005. The AVA is enclosed by mountains on all sides between Yamhill-Carlton and the Chehalem Mountains, and is actually part of the larger Chehalem Mountains AVA. Its soils have a finer texture than its neighbors with parent materials composed of sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone. Given its presence of natural aquifers in this five square mile area, most vineyards are actually easily dry farmed!