Winemaker Notes
Located in the Willamette Valley AVA, Freedom Hill vineyard is on ancient marine sedimentary parent material at 450 ft elevation on Southeast inclination. The wine is floral and spice focused. Warming spices of cassia bark and all-spice mingle with juicy red fruits. Hints of graham cracker and forest floor emerge in a luscious finish.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2017 Pinot Noir Freedom Hill Vineyard is savory with dark fruits of black cherry, fresh pine, and turned soil. The full-bodied palate offers notes of black raspberry, lavender, and iron-rich earth, rich structure, ripe tannins, and great balance in its larger frame.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2017 Ken Wright Freedom Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir defines the grape variety well. TASTING NOTES: This wine is perky and bright. Its aromas and flavors of active red fruits should pair it well with slow-cooked lamb shanks. (Tasted: February 12, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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.