J. Christopher Sandra Adele Pinot Noir 2015
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The Sandra Adele Pinot Noir is a cuvée named for Jay’s mother, Sandy. It is a special blend of selected barrels from two outstanding vineyards in the Dundee Hills AVA: Abbey Ridge and Charlie’s Vineyard. An extraordinarily sophisticated and complex wine, it combines the elegant, floral character of the high-elevation Abbey Ridge vineyard with the deeper, more earthy taste of Charlie’s Vineyard.
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Plush and refined, with expressive raspberry and mint aromas and polished, layered cherry and spicy cinnamon flavors that ease through a long finish.
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James Suckling
Intense aromas of earth, mushrooms and white truffles. There are also notes of fresh, crushed cranberries. Light to medium body, sweet and round tannins and a fresh and lovely finish. This is an unfiltered wine. Drink now.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The pale to medium ruby colored 2015 Pinot Noir Sandra Adele gives delicate scents of cranberry juice, rhubarb and strawberry preserves with wood smoke, tilled soil, bitter peel and forest floor notions. Light to medium-bodied, it has great bones: grainy tannins and lively, juicy acidity, filling the mouth with ripe, sweet fruit flavors with veins of spice and earth, finishing very long.
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Located in Oregon’s Northern Willamette Valley, J. Christopher Wines is a boutique winery that specializes in Pinot Noir made in the traditional style of Burgundy, and in Sauvignon Blanc modeled after the superlative wines of Sancerre. The winery is owned by world renowned Ernst Loosen, of Weingut Dr. Loosen in Germany. Erni’s lifetime passion for the wines of Burgundy has led to a philosophy to produce elegant, nuanced wines in a distinctly Old World style with an emphasis on lower alcohol and a modest amount of oak. The wines have garnered an international reputation for their purity, balance and food-friendly drinkability.
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.”
Home of the first Pinot noir vineyard of the Willamette Valley, planted by David Lett of Eyrie Vineyard in 1966, today the Dundee Hills AVA remains the most densely planted AVA in the valley (and state). To its north sits the Chehalem Valley and to its south, runs the Willamette River. Within the region’s 12,500 acres, about 1,700 are planted to vine on predominantly basalt-based, volcanic, Jory soil.