Chapter 24 The Fire Pinot Noir 2017

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Region

Producer

Vintage
2017

Size
750ML

ABV
13.5%

Features
Collectible

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

A study in terroir in one word: Fire. It’s more red-fruited than its counterparts, with scents of cherries, raspberries, cedar and forest floor. A tannic component to the texture girds the wine while serving as a springboard, keeping it high-toned and elegant.

Professional Ratings

  • 92

    Lush and satisfying, The Fire is Chapter 24’s ode to vines planted in volcanic soils. The wine leads with whole-cluster spice and plush red fruit, not so much dense as it is saturated with flavor. It’s warm and inviting, with dusty tannins that add heft and a chewy richness, giving this the stuffing to age. 

  • 92

    This is focused on a delicately brooding core of lively acidity and tannins that expands slowly, with snappy cherry, river stone and dusty anise flavors. Best from 2021 through 2029.

  • 92

    Medium ruby-purple the 2017 Pinot Noir The Fire gives up very pretty scents of dried strawberries, raspberries and rhubarb with warm blackberries, fragrant earth, burnt orange peel, tea leaves and an earthy current. The palate is medium-bodied, silky and youthfully slow to unfurl, with a firm, grainy frame and great freshness, finishing nuanced.

  • 90

    Quite similar to the previous vintage, this offers black cherry fruit with chalky graphite. There’s a touch of barnyard, light enough to be a feature, not a flaw, and a streak of café au lait. Drink over the next two or three years.

Other Vintages

2016
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2015
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Utilizing the proprietary infusion technique of consulting Burgundian winemaker Louis-Michel Liger-Belair, Chapter 24’s winemaking is more akin to steeping rather than an aggressive extraction process. This does not mean they have reinvented the wheel or discovered some form of secret winemaking technique that hasn’t already been used in Oregon. What they have done, however, is brought together a number of variables which, on their own, don’t contribute great changes, but as a whole, markedly change the direction of a wine’s final destination to more closely resemble the structure of beloved Pinot Noirs. That is, Pinot Noir elegantly crafted for immediate enjoyment, without negating its ability to age impeccably.

Chapter 24 Vineyards was named after the last chapter of Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. This particular chapter was added long after Homer died. The Greeks continued the tale to satisfy themselves despite the author thinking he was finished after Chapter 23. The mark of a great ending is not what it says about the past, but rather what it promises for the future, and Chapter 23 clearly raised more questions than it answered. In this same spirit, the story of Chapter 24’s wines continues well past the cellar door. Winemaking is just the beginning of the story. The wine may be finished but it is not the end.

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Home of some of the planet’s most amazingly elegant and expressive Pinot noir, the Willamette Valley is a pastoral, mixed landscape of green, bucolic rolling hills, dramatic forestlands and small, independent, friendly wine growers. As a leader in environmental stewardship, the valley has some of the nation’s most protective land use policies, with two-thirds of its vineyards farmed sustainably and over half, organically. While the valley claims a cool, continental climate, and is heavily influenced by the cold, moist winds of the Pacific Ocean, its warm and dry summers allow for the steady, even ripening of Pinot noir.

The potential of Willamette Valley Pinot noir continues to attract the investment of serious growers and winemakers both locally and from abroad, as naturally the finished wines bring accolades from professionals and enthusiasts. With a range of styles from delicate dried cherry, raspberry and hibiscus to stronger notes of truffle, mocha, plum and spice, a fine Willamette Valley Pinot noir is a perfect expression of both character and grace.

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