Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
The scent of dusty roadside raspberries is complemented by fresh aromas of lemon and fresh-mowed grass. Raspberries are the dominant fruit on a crisp textured palate, along with flavors like bittersweet dark chocolate and toasted pumpkin seeds right out of the oven, drizzled with sea salt. Bright acidity orbits this wine like a sun.
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Wine Spectator
Snappy and tart with appealing cherry, rhubarb and licorice flavors that finish with fine-grained tannins. Drink now through 2029. 2,025 cases made.
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.