Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Impressive richness of ripe, dark and red cherries on offer here. This has a very pure, fragrant and fresh nose with the right serving of spicy, brambly complexity. The palate is a very attractive, succulent offering with sturdy tannins bathed in rich, cherry flavors. Drink or hold.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Sokol Blosser Winery Evolution Pinot Noir is persistent and fruit-forward. TASTING NOTES: This wine is demonstrative and flavorful. Pair its generous aromas and flavors black fruit and savory earth with braised lamb shanks over rice pilaf. (Tasted: March 4, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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.