Winemaker Notes
The aromatics are giving and voluptuous with notes of black cherry, leather, mint, bramble and hints of red cedar. On the mouth it has a certain refined elegance with soft tannins, violets, earth and cassis.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
From the warmest year in Oregon history, the 2015 Pinot Noir Domaine Danielle Laurent pours a brick red color and reveals a ripe nose of leather, baked cherries, red plum, dusty earth, and dried flowers. It’s relatively full on the palate, with supple tannins, a rounded, silky feel, lovely fruity, and a long finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Pale to medium ruby-purple colored, the 2015 Pinot Noir Domaine Danielle Laurent has notes of chocolate box, baking spices and lavender with a core of warm red cherries and raspberry leaves. The medium-bodied palate is soft and spicy, with a good amount of expressive red berry and spicy flavors, finishing long and perfumed.
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.