Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This balanced wine has to be one of the Willamette Valley’s best Pinot Noir values. Aromas of red cherries, dried rose petals and a trace of aged balsamic vinegar are an almost perfect perfume. A flawless mix of citrus acidity and silky tannins support flavors like blackberry, thyme and a wisp of Assam tea.
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Wine Spectator
This version is generous and precise, offering straightforward raspberry, black tea and forest floor accents that finish with zesty tannins.
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.