Winemaker Notes
This wine is made in a fruit forward style and intended for early consumption. The wine has delicious red fruit components of raspberry, strawberry and some stone fruit character. The wine has a soft round mouth-feel which offers up a hint of spice and a touch of bright acid to enhance a wide range of foods. Tasting Notes: dark cherry, and cola with a classic vanilla and oak finish; also, dried flowers, brown baking spice, leather. Food Pairings: Roast turkey, pork Loin and salmon dishes.
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.