Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This lush offering opens with appealing aromas of rose petals and fresh strawberries, then glides into a smooth-as-silk midpalate. The berry/cherry fruit is nicely adorned with toasty barrel flavors, and it’s as satiny as new sheets. You’ll find it hard to keep from gulping this by the glassful. Editors' Choice.
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Wine & Spirits
Ripe and demonstrative when first poured, this second Oregon vintage from the La Crema team has an oak-driven top note that recedes with air, revealing an earthy, dark red cherry flavor and a pleasing concentration in the finish. Pour it with roast squab.
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Wine Spectator
Supple, velvety and well-focused, offering a deft mouthful of black cherry and apricot flavors, playing against polished tannins as the finish persists and expands. Drink now through 2021. 17,916 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.