Winemaker Notes
Cherry, huckleberry, cotton candy. Lush texture with bright aciditiy provides great energy in this wine.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Few Willamette Valley producers make as many different single-vineyard wines each vintage as Ken Wright (14 and counting), and none do a better job of differentiating each into its particular terroir and strengths. This Latchkey hits a bull’s-eye for fruit lovers, with a luscious mix of raspberry, marionberry and cherry fruit ripened to a jammy perfection. Still wound up tight and bolstered with bright acidity, this finishes with a burst of Nutella goodness.
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Wine Spectator
Impeccably structured and refined, featuring layered blueberry flavors laced with orange peel, river stone and savory spice details, finishing with fine tannins. Drink now through 2025.
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James Suckling
Earthy, dried dark-cherry and spicy, sous bois notes on the nose lead to quite a rich, fleshy palate that has such supple ripe blueberries and plums. Long, plush and full. Drink or hold. Synthetic cork.
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.