Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
A lovely wine, this broadens out across the palate with flavors of blackberry jam, mocha and sweet spice. The penetrating acidity keeps it lively through the finish. It's full bodied and flavorful, with well-integrated barrel flavors from 16 months in 30% new French oak.
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Wine Spectator
Sleek and spirited, with delicately complex violet, raspberry and spiced cinnamon flavors that glide lithely on the finish. Drink now through 2026.
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.