Winemaker Notes
Forward notes of sweet cherry, blueberry, smoked paprika and cedar lead to a full mouth of generous dark fruit including raspberry compote, black currant, cracked black pepper and salted caramel finishing with lingering plush tannins.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This has a very attractive dose of rich dark cherries on the nose with a bright, silky palate that has long, seamless tannins that carry super long and fresh. Good depth and balance here.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Medium ruby-purple, the 2018 Pinot Noir Tavola has pretty scents of raspberry, cranberry, Earl Grey tea leaves, wood smoke and floral perfume. The palate is soft and juicy with alluringly perfumed, spicy fruit and an uplifted finish. This is very easy to drink! Best After 2023
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Wine Enthusiast
This widely available bottling is sourced from vineyards scattered across the Willamette Valley. Aromatic and bright, the sassy raspberry fruit dominates nose and palate, with drying tannins echoing through the finish. It was aged in 20% new French oak for just under a year. Editors’ Choice.
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Wine Spectator
Generous and lively, with rose petal, raspberry and cherry accents that glide on the long, sleek finish. Drink now.
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.