Winemaker Notes
The Domaine Danielle Laurent Pinot Noir is always a crowd favorite. From the estate 'wedding vineyard' that started it all, this is a powerful wine that matches with a range of foods and enlivens any evening. It has a hearty nose of Bing cherry peel and baking spice, followed by taste of black plum, raspberry, cracked peppercorn, and crushed slate.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
A structured red, with a lively backbone of acidity that powers deep black raspberry, dusky spice and black tea flavors, which build toward broad-shouldered tannins. Drink now through 2030.
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James Suckling
Floral and orange-peel aromas with some hibiscus, following through to a medium body, citrus notes and firm 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.