Penner-Ash Estate Vineyard Pinot Noir 2016
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Floral and violet aromas are delicately layered with cocoa, plum and savory hints of baking spice. Firm tannins, oak, cedar, and the play between sweet and savory, create depth in this wine. Red and black fruits add to a fleshy mid palate experience leading to a long-lasting finish.
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Svelte and harmonious, with expressive raspberry, clove and orange peel flavors that build richness and polish on the long finish. Drink now through 2026.
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James Suckling
This offers an array of fresh and brambly red cherries with a very neatly focused, red-cherry and raspberry core on the palate, wrapped in gently sinewy tannins. Attractively fresh resolve. Drink now.
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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.”
Yamhill-Carlton, characterized by pastoral, rolling hills composed of shallow, quick-draining, ancient marine soil, is ideal for Pinot noir and other cool-climate-loving varieties. It is in the rain shadow of the Coast Range to its west, whose highest point climbs to an altitude of 3,500 feet. Yamhill-Carlton is actually surrounded by mountains on three sides: Chehalem Mountains to the north, the Dundee Hills to the east and the western Coast Range to its west, which, when it lets Pacific air through, serves to cool the region.
Vineyards grow on the ridges surrounding the two small communities of Yamhill and Carlton and cover about 1,200 acres of this 60,000 acre region, which roughly makes a horse-shoe shape on a map.