Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Polish meets structure with this handsome red, which offers expressive raspberry, fresh violet and spice box accents that build richness toward refined tannins. Drink now through 2029. 184 cases made.
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Wine Enthusiast
Everything about this Jerome is smooth, from texture to tannins. Blackberries, loam and a bouquet of violets swirl up from the glass. The wine is medium bodied, with flavors of bright red raspberries, beeswax and cedar. The Jerome is made with the vintage’s best 10 barrels.
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.