Winemaker Notes
This wine will pair beautifully with lamb, duck, grilled salmon, and aged cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
An extremely well-done wine for the 2013 vintage with spice, dried-lemon-rind and strawberry character. Medium body, light tannins and a crisp finish. Stylish.
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Wine Enthusiast
Elegant and complex, this conjures up scents and accents of breakfast tea, black cherry, cassis and cut tobacco. It's tart and sappy, with youthful verve and refreshing acidity. Drink now through 2025.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2013 Pinot Noir Elizabeth's Reserve underwent a four to six day skin maceration and was matured for ten months in 31% new French oak. It offers raspberry and pomegranate scents on the nose, before changing tack towards hints of iodine and even boot polish. The palate is lithe and fresh in the mouth - succulent tannin and bright red cherry and strawberry fruit to the fore. Harmonious with good length, this is one of the best releases from Adelsheim this year.
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Wine & Spirits
In 2013 the Eola–Amity vineyards that contribute to Elizabeth’s Reserve were harvested mostly before the big late-September rain event. That relatively early date gave fruit with a palpable tension—a scent of fresh cherries and lively, energetic, acid-driven flavors. Its texture is focused, if a bit compressed, suggesting it needs some cellar time before serving with duck confit.
Established in 1971, Adelsheim is a family-owned and operated winery with estate vineyards located in Oregon's northern Willamette Valley. Over the past 41 years, the Adelsheim Vineyard estate has grown to include twelve exception vineyard sites throughout the Valley, totaling 237 acres. Company co-founder, David Adelsheim, has done work throughout the years to benefit both the Oregon and American wine industries: grape and wine research, wine labeling, industry education, and promotion. He is recognized for his "outstanding service" to the industry and has played a vital role in building the Oregon wine industry and establishing its reputation worldwide. Today, he leads a current generation of passionate staff devoted to leading the industry in crafting consistently transcendent wines.
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.