Alexana Terroir Series Pinot Noir 2016
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Precise and harmonious, offering layered raspberry and cherry flavors laced with smoky anise and spice notes, building richness toward polished tannins. Drink now through 2025.
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This multivineyard blend is svelte, supple and sophisticated. Flavors of dark cherry, plum, fig and hints of chocolate-covered raisins are well matched. The finish is smooth and lightly tangy. While some of Alexana's 2016s want further bottle age, this wine is already drinking quite nicely.
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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.
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