Winemaker Notes
Showcasing the best of the cool, late season, Argyle's Pinot Noir is boasting with vibrant acidity, tension, and polished tannin from start to finish. Like the gem that it is, ruby red cherry on the palate fades into black fruit at the edges with hints of black tea and rugged forest floor.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This stunning value offers a winning aromatic combination of briary blackberries and qualities akin to a savory meat pie made with lamb. Zingy acidity and silky tannins showcase rich flavors of cocoa powder and a jam made of black cap raspberries and ginger. Sip this wine all by itself, perhaps under the stars.
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Wine Spectator
Opens with a refreshing beam of cherry and cranberry fruit, then draws in black tea and dusky spice flavors that finish with savory tannins.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2021 Argyle Pinot Noir is attractive and true to type. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers aromas and flavors of savory spices, dried earth, mineral notes, and blackberries. Try it with grilled lamb kebabs. (Tasted: July 7, 2023, San Francisco, CA)
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.