Winemaker Notes
This wine is beautifully transparent in the glass, with limpid ruby edges. Resinous flint, cacao powder and sweet tobacco greet the nose, which morph into delicate strawberry mingled with mandarin orange. The palate is strikingly wrapped in light maple candy, protecting a core of crunchy red flesh apple.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Meet Entre Nous, the only wine in the world possibly named in honor of a Rush song. Its aromas are an earthy mix of red raspberries, fermenting hay and espresso. Blackberry and black tea with lemon flavors mix with a trace of thyme, all of which is braced by brash acidity. This is no fly by night Pinot Noir.
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.