Winemaker Notes
Made with estate Pinot Noir, this wine saw whole berry, native yeast fermentation before aging primarily in neutral French oak for nine months. Notes of bright red fruit, baking spice, cola and earth are met with silky tannins, layers of complexity and a lengthy finish — a classic representation of the Dundee Hills.
Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
Tobacco and earthy nose with chocolate and coffee notes. The fruit is tart and bright with great tertiary characteristics.
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Wine Spectator
Sleek and spirited, with expressive cherry and pomegranate flavors accented by cinnamon and floral tea notes, finishing with refined tannins. Drink now through 2024.
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James Suckling
A bright, light and simple, red-fruited style that has a fresh and lithe core of vibrant red berries and cherries. Neat and approachable. Drink now. Screw cap.
Stoller Family Estate is one of Oregon's most highly regarded vineyards and wineries. Pioneering Oregonian and Founder Bill Stoller purchased his family's second-generation farm in 1993 with the vision of cultivating an enduring legacy for the land and Oregon wine industry. Over the last 30 years, he has patiently transformed the 400-acre property into the largest contiguous vineyard in the Dundee Hills. We continue to look for new ways to refine and protect that legacy so it can thrive for generations to come.
Stoller Family Estate features the world's first LEED® Gold certified winery, a reflection of our ongoing commitment to sustainable and environmentally responsible winemaking.
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.”
Home of the first Pinot noir vineyard of the Willamette Valley, planted by David Lett of Eyrie Vineyard in 1966, today the Dundee Hills AVA remains the most densely planted AVA in the valley (and state). To its north sits the Chehalem Valley and to its south, runs the Willamette River. Within the region’s 12,500 acres, about 1,700 are planted to vine on predominantly basalt-based, volcanic, Jory soil.