Winemaker Notes
This cellar selection stitches together pieces from unique sites across the Willamette Valley. Lots are fermented with native yeast & a variety of traditional & experimental techniques to create a layered wine of great complexity, but that is, first and foremost, totally delicious.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
A blend of their sites, the 2021 Pinot Noir Old Eight Cut pours a saturated but transparent red and sports an attractive mix of a spicy and floral profile, with ripe wild raspberry, a hint of blue fruit, roses, and fresh forest herbs. Medium-bodied and juicy, with a beautiful balance of elegance and immediate appeal, it has fine tannins and a great, clean finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 Pinot Noir Old Eight Cut comes from appellations across the Willamette Valley, including Eola-Amity Hills, Ribbon Ridge and Dundee Hills. It's scented of red cherries, cranberries and bergamot with nuances of aniseed and mushroom. The medium-bodied palate is soft and refreshing, combining structural elegance with generous, floral fruit, and it has a long, nuanced finish.
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Wine Spectator
Tightly focused, bordering on taut, with brooding cherry, black tea and savory forest floor tones that finish with medium-grained tannins. Best from 2024 through 2031. 1,430 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.