Winemaker Notes
Crafted with old world luxury winemaking traditions such as concrete and oak fermenters, basket presses and French oak barrel aging. Sourced from dry farmed vineyards in the Umpqua Valley located in Southern Oregon as well as fruit from the Willamette Valley. The Umpqua Valley provides depth of character and richness while a touch of Willamette Valley brings elegance and acidity.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This lovely wine is 80% Umpqua valley and 20% Willamette valley fruit, aged a full year in one-quarter new French oak—pretty high standards for a $20 Pinot. It's soft, smooth, well modulated and showing light rhubarb, strawberry and pie-cherry fruit. No need to wait on this wine: it's drinking perfectly right now.
While the Willamette Valley and Pinot Noir are a like a fairy tale match made in heaven, most of Oregon is in fact, a glorious source of Pinot noir. Claiming over half of its total area under vine, Pinot noir also thrives in Southern Oregon’s Umpqua and Rogue Valleys where sedimentary and volcanic soils dominate hillside vineyards and cool temperatures create the perfect environment for Pinot noir. Also, Oregon’s Columbia Gorge is becoming increasingly popular for Pinot noir production. What sets Oregon Pinot noir apart from the Pinot of other regions, both New and Old World, is its innate combination of grace with both power and restraint.
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