Winemaker Notes
This wine is brimming with dark cherry, plum, licorice, and sweet smells of pipe tobacco.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A deeply perfumed and aromatic nose with notes of fresh raspberries, blueberries and pine resin. The palate is medium-bodied and textured, with fine tannins, striking acidity, a luscious mouthfeel and notes of cedar, roses and cherries. A very complex pinot noir with a long finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Pinot Noir Sequitur Vineyard begins with a touch of flintiness that gives way to red cherries, pipe tobacco, iodine, salami and singular sparks of grapefruit peel. The medium-bodied palate is bursting with detailed, savory flavors and soaring top notes of citrus. It has a finely chalky frame, fireworks of fresh acidity and a long, layered finish.
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.