Winemaker Notes
Notes of bramble and earth interplay with black cherry, raspberry, pomegranate and barrel spice. Candied cherry, dark chocolate, cola and hints of hazelnuts drive this bright, yet soft, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir.
Enjoy this beautiful wine with salmon, beef brisket, sautéed mushrooms and Ahi tuna!
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
A lovely halo of spicy plum and boysenberry fruit floats around a light, focused structure of fine tannins and lively acidity, dancing deftly through a juicy finish. Best from 2016 through 2020.
More than thirty years ago, Don and Wendy Lange founded their winery in the Dundee Hills of Oregon's northern Willamette Valley. The year 1987 marked the Langes' first vintage and consisted of the three varietals they embrace today: Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, and Chardonnay.
New-world pioneers in the production of Pinot Gris, Lange Estate was the first to release a barrel-fermented reserve–an effort Matt Kramer of the WINE SPECTATOR calls "a bench-mark bottling." Don Lange's work as a winemaker has been termed "brilliant "by Hugh Johnson, and the WINE ENTHUSIAST proclaimed Lange Estate to be "one of the great Pinot Noir producers in the United States."
Lange Estate is known for crafting beautifully balanced wines from fruit grown on the winery Estate, located in the heart of the prestigious Dundee Hills appellation. To further supplement our case production, the Langes purchase additional fruit from the best vineyards in the surrounding area. Long-standing relationships with these blue-ribbon sites have helped the winery establish a well-deserved reputation for consistency and complexity in the wines.
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.