Portlandia Winery Momtazi Pinot Noir 2018
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Aromas of ripe Marionberry and cherry pie accented with spice, chocolate, subtle ginger and nutmeg undertones. Bright acid entry, balanced by assertive fine-grained tannins and a full mid-palate. Rich flavors of Bing cherry are backed by pipe tobacco, cocoa and subtle hints of vanilla. A bold wine that can be enjoyed now while in its youth or matured through 2025 and beyond.
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These biodynamic grapes ad texture and subtle aromatics, driving up the complexity and incorporating a pleasing mix of floral, fruit and herbal components. It's a full bodied wine, with marionberry and blackberry fruit and highlights of nutmeg and spice and cut tobacco.
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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Stretching southwest from the city of McMinnville, the AVA with the same name covers about 40,000 acres across 20 miles until it meets the Van Duzer Corridor. This corridor is the only break in the Coast Range whose gap allows the cool Pacific Ocean air to flow eastward into the Willamette Valley.
The Pacific's moderating winds hit McMinnville’s south and southeast facing slopes where cool-climate varieties—namely Pinot noir and Pinot blanc thrive on ridges at between 200 to 1,000 feet in elevation.
Soils here are primarily uplifted marine sedimentary loam and silt, with alluvial formations; McMinnville receives less rainfall than its neighbors to the east because it is situated in the rain shadow of the Coast Range.