Brick House Select Pinot Noir 2016
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The mose easy-going and approachable of all the winery's Pinot Noirs, the "Select" is a moderately priced, estate-grown wine and a worthy accompaniment to a casual meal of salmon, lamb or wild game.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Pinot Noir Select is medium ruby in color with a nose of cranberry, red cherries/berries and red licorice with alluring notes of wood smoke, cola, forest floor and spice plus a touch of saltiness. It’s medium-bodied and silky with oodles of ripe black and red fruits accented by earth and spice with a bit of that saltiness coming through. It’s got a firm frame of very fine, grainy tannins and gobs of mouthwatering acidity, finishing long.
Rating: 92+
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Pretty raspberry and strawberry blossom aromas open to delicate and silky cherry and spice flavors that glide on the finish.
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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.”
Ribbon Ridge is a regular span of uplifted, marine, sedimentary soils (called Willakenzie), whose highest ridge elevations twist like a ribbon. An early settler from Missouri named Colby Carter noticed this unique topography and gave the region its name in 1865—though it wasn’t declared its own AVA until 140 years later, in 2005. The AVA is enclosed by mountains on all sides between Yamhill-Carlton and the Chehalem Mountains, and is actually part of the larger Chehalem Mountains AVA. Its soils have a finer texture than its neighbors with parent materials composed of sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone. Given its presence of natural aquifers in this five square mile area, most vineyards are actually easily dry farmed!