Winemaker Notes
Floral and spice focused. Tart cherry and huckleberry with generous floral notes of hibiscus and rose, touches of nutmeg amd black tea.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2016 Pinot Noir McCrone Vineyard is vibrant with red fruit, raspberry, candied roses, and sweet baking spice. The palate is open and inviting with its notes of grenadine, herbes de Provence, and fresh citrus. This wine is hard not to love now, alhough it will be worth holding on to.
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Wine Enthusiast
The flavors here fall on the low end of ripeness, especially for the vintage, showing elegant, tart red fruits adorned with fresh green herbs. Lemon verbena, citrus oil and rhubarb accentuate the flavors of this wine, which should be consumed over the next three or four years.
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.