Winemaker Notes
The 2022 Lange Rosé of Pinot Noir fairly blooms in the glass with lilting aromas of Rainier cherries, strawberries, melon, orange blossom, and wet stone. Silky and focused on the palate, the finish is long and precise and is etched with a flourish of stony minerality at the close.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Fermented and aged in new and neutral French oak barrels, this Dundee Hills rosé exudes aromas of cherry blossoms and sliced peaches drizzled with honey. Apricot and pink-grapefruit flavors are joined by a dollop of salinity. The wine’s elevated acidity makes the tongue tingle.
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Jeb Dunnuck
A pale salmon hue, the 2022 Rose Of Pinot Noir is fresh and floral with pithy white grapefruit, fresh flowers, and fresh peach. Medium-bodied, with a light spritz of white pepper, it’s a balanced and fresh rosé with good ripeness and texture and will provide solid drinking over the next couple of years.
Whether it’s playful and fun or savory and serious, most rosé today is not your grandmother’s White Zinfandel, though that category remains strong. Pink wine has recently become quite trendy, and this time around it’s commonly quite dry. Since the pigment in red wines comes from keeping fermenting juice in contact with the grape skins for an extended period, it follows that a pink wine can be made using just a brief period of skin contact—usually just a couple of days. The resulting color depends on grape variety and winemaking style, ranging from pale salmon to deep magenta.
Home of the first Pinot noir vineyard of the Willamette Valley, planted by David Lett of Eyrie Vineyard in 1966, today the Dundee Hills AVA remains the most densely planted AVA in the valley (and state). To its north sits the Chehalem Valley and to its south, runs the Willamette River. Within the region’s 12,500 acres, about 1,700 are planted to vine on predominantly basalt-based, volcanic, Jory soil.