Winemaker Notes
This delicious dry rendition lightly carries the texture of extended lees contact while remaining crisp, fruity, and complex on the palate.
Pairs well with oysters and raw foods.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Pinot Blanc Estate has earthy aromas of mushrooms and cheese rind accenting a core of white peach and soft floral tones. The medium-bodied palate is luxuriously creamy and savory, its depth countered by fresh acidity, and it finishes long and layered.
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Vinous
The 2022 Pinot Blanc is crisply refreshing, lifting from the glass with an airy mix of white flowers, wet stone and hints of lime sorbet. It’s softly textured yet full of citrus and mineral tension as tart orchard fruits cascade throughout. It finishes long with touches of tropical melon and inner florals as the mouth is left watering for more. What a beauty.
Approachable, aromatic and pleasantly plush on the palate, Pinot Blanc is a white grape variety most associated with the Alsace region of France. Although its heritage is Burgundian, today it is rarely found there and instead thrives throughout central Europe, namely Germany and Austria, where it is known as Weissburgunder and Alto Adige where it is called Pinot Bianco. Interestingly, Pinot Blanc was born out of a mutation of the pink-skinned Pinot Gris. Somm Secret—Chardonnay fans looking to try something new would benefit from giving Pinot Blanc a try.
Home of the first Pinot noir vineyard of the Willamette Valley, planted by David Lett of Eyrie Vineyard in 1966, today the Dundee Hills AVA remains the most densely planted AVA in the valley (and state). To its north sits the Chehalem Valley and to its south, runs the Willamette River. Within the region’s 12,500 acres, about 1,700 are planted to vine on predominantly basalt-based, volcanic, Jory soil.