Winemaker Notes
The 2023 Rosé of Pinot Noir presents apricot, tangerine pith, lemongrass, and raspberry jam. It is long and lingering on the palate, with nectarine, apricot, and yuzu citrus. This vintage boasts quiet confidence, with layers that continue to unfold across the palate carried on by a linear acid line. It’s spring to summer in a glass.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2023 Rose Of Pinot Noir is a pale salmon hue and offers notes of fresh raspberries, white peach, roses, and salted melon rind. The palate has a touch of youthful effervescent with a hint of pepper on opening as well as a kiss of ripe fruit and a rounded finish.
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.