Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
The gorgeous packaging of the Antiquum Farm wines does not over-promise: the same attention to detail is in the bottle. A ripe and fruity expression of a full-bodied vintage, this bursts with forward, fresh blackberry and cherry fruit goodness. There’s a dash of clean earth, and suggestions of coffee and licorice as well. It’s thoroughly delicious.
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Wine Spectator
Ripe, rich and expressive, dense without excess weight, this is generous, with plum, cherry and currant fruit, shaded with toast and black pepper nuances. Offers depth and intensity, finishing long. Best from 2016 through 2020.
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.