Winemaker Notes
Blend: 100% Pinot Noir
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This is attractive, with wild strawberries, cocoa-dusted cherries, walnuts and nutmeg. Juicy and pristine on the palate, with medium body, crunchy acidity and sleek cherries and raspberries in the middle. Its both delicate and firm, with a flavorful blue-fruit finish.
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Wine & Spirits
Showing off the dark flavor spectrum of the vast Chehalem AVA, this is set on volcanic soils on a south-facing slope, planted in 2003. It’s dark with notes of cinnamon and carob, plum and currant. Gentle for now, a touch broad, this may gain definition in the cellar.
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Wine Spectator
Juicy and zesty, with easygoing cherry and green tea flavors that finish with snappy tannins. Drink now. 1,970 cases made.
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.