Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Outgoing and easy to like, this brings tart and juicy raspberry and pomegranate fruit front and center. Details pile on: hibiscus tea and rosewater in particular. It's stylish through and through, with a long clean finish.
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Wine Spectator
Bright and polished, with expressive black cherry and orange zest aromas and tightly focused, layered raspberry and stony mineral flavors that finish with vibrant acidity. Drink now through 2021.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Pale to medium ruby in color, the 2015 Pinot Noir has a lovely savory nose of charcuterie, wood smoke, violets, pencil shavings and black fruits with a hint of black licorice. Light to medium-bodied, it fills the mouth with dark fruits, floral notes and oodles of savory nuance. It’s framed by soft, grainy tannins and mouthwatering acidity, finishing long and spicy.
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.