Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Lovely, ripe berries with some chocolate and cedar. Spicy. It’s full-bodied with round tannins and a flavorful finish. Drink now. Screw cap.
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Wine Enthusiast
Most Bryn Mawr wines are estate grown. This is the exception, but shows the same careful hand at the winemaking tiller. It's firm, well structured and deftly mixes savory, earthy flavors with tart berry fruit. It was barrel aged and a slender vein of caramel suggests that there was at least a small percentage of new oak.
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.