Winemaker Notes
Pairs well with poultry or red meat, as well with heavier seafood and roasted vegetables.
Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
This wine demands a pause, especially at this price. With a satiny texture, it’s juicy and aromatic with a pleasant mouthfeel. Great acid and a savory, long finish.
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James Suckling
This has a wealth of crushed roses and foresty sous-bois with spicy red fruit. The palate is all nicely arranged with a very juicy and succulent build of grainy tannins at the finish
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Wine Spectator
Precise and impressively structured, with refined raspberry, crushed rock and savory tea accents that take on richness and depth toward polished tannins. Drink now through 2024.
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Wine Enthusiast
The entry-level Pinot from Maison Jadot's Oregon project, this is aromatically dense with baking spices, baby powder and incense. There's an interesting graininess to the mouthfeel, with tightly wound cranberry and raspberry fruit. The tannins are polished but retain a bit of astringency.
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Wine & Spirits
All about structure at present, this wine needs some time to fully unfurl. For now it smells andtastes like lightly toasted oak and red cherries,round as pie filling, before finishing with well-honed oak tannins.
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.