Winemaker Notes
With its broad array of origins and clones, this 2017 Pinot noir displays aromas of cocoa, pomegranate, and raspberry on the nose and the palate as well as a light touch of nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice. True to our house style, it is elegantly textured with seamlessly integrated, silky, polished tannins.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A brambly array of vibrantly ripe red-cherry aromas here with a lithe, fresh and juicy palate that offers a gently spicy and toasty finish with plenty of fresh-fruit kick. Drink now.
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Wine Spectator
Polished and elegantly complex, with pretty rose petal, raspberry and spiced tea flavors that glide on the long finish. Drink now through 2024. 25,300 cases made.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: Adelsheim Vineyard is one of Oregon's most consistent producer of high-quality Pinot Noirs. The 2017 vintage continues the streak. TASTING NOTES: This wine is bright and appealing. Enjoy is aromas of ripe berries and dried earth with grilled lamb. (Tasted: October 30, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Medium ruby, the 2017 Pinot Noir gives up aromas of fresh cranberries, sliced blueberries, crushed peppercorn, woodsmoke, Bing cherries and underbrush. The palate is light to medium-bodied and earthy in profile with a gentle frame of fuzzy tannins and great freshness, finishing long.
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.