Winemaker Notes
Vivid red cherry in color. The nose speaks of a great terroir, unlike any of its neighbors, with a salty sanguine note, dried beef, grilled meats over a wood fire, iron-ore, cherry candies, red roses, violets, savory dried and fresh herbs, red cherries, dark raspberries, ripe Hood strawberries, chutney, pomegranate, and bacon. The mouthfeel is exciting as it is at once pleasing to drink now and also has a spectrum of fruit, aroma, and minerals just waiting to unfurl for years to come. Lovely succulent natural acidity, stem brings savoriness, bright, fresh, deliciously ripe red and dark red fruits on the palate. this wine is explosively delicious right now. Some leather, tobacco, and oak barrel char on the finish give this lifted elegant wine some serious power. The quintessential iron fist in the velvet glove. The wine of the vintage and one of the best Bergstrom Vineyard single vineyard bottlings they have ever achieved.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Deftly structured and polished, with rich, expressive flavors of raspberry and strawberry laced with herbes de Provence and savory spice notes as this builds richness and tension toward refined tannins.
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James Suckling
Beautiful nose of strawberries, cherries, forest floor, warm spices and dried roses. Medium-bodied with silky tannins and bright acidity. Well-balanced and crafty, with a precise core of succulent cherries mingling with the spices throughout. Lively and refined with a flavorful finish. Drink or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The Bergström Vineyard in the Dundee Hills is composed of volcanic clay and basalt soils, and that terroir really comes through in the 2022 Pinot Noir Bergström Vineyard. The nose evokes scorched earth, iron and meaty tones before it reveals roasted cranberries, burnt orange peel and Angostura bitters. The medium-bodied palate is bursting with layered, earth-laced flavors. It's structured by copious yet silky tannins, and its vibrant acidity lures you in for another sip.
Bergstrom Wines is a family-owned and operated artisan producer of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay which was started in 1999 by Dr. John and Karen Bergstrom, with the help of their son Josh Bergstrom and his wife Caroline. Josh is general manager, vineyard manager and winemaker and pulls his expertise from his education in Burgundy, France and his 14 years experience making wines in Oregon's Northern Willamette Valley. Bergstrom focuses on hand-crafting small lots of wines from their fice estate vineyards carefully chosen from fice of Oregon's six wine-growing appellations. All estate acreage is farmed biodynamically and all wines express the wonderful diversity of Oregon's many great terroirs.
Bergström Wines consists of five estate vineyards totaling 84 acres that span across four of the Willamette Valley’s best appellations: The Bergström Vineyard, Silice Vineyard, Winery Block, Gregory Ranch and Le Pré du Col. Each estate vineyard is farmed without the use of harsh chemicals, systemic or fertilizers, and the winery produces approximately 10,000 cases of ultra-premium and extremely sought-after wine each year, including two Chardonnays and nine different Pinot Noirs.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Home of the first Pinot noir vineyard of the Willamette Valley, planted by David Lett of Eyrie Vineyard in 1966, today the Dundee Hills AVA remains the most densely planted AVA in the valley (and state). To its north sits the Chehalem Valley and to its south, runs the Willamette River. Within the region’s 12,500 acres, about 1,700 are planted to vine on predominantly basalt-based, volcanic, Jory soil.