Winemaker Notes
Aromas of ripe raspberry, dark cherry, pipe tobacco, orange pekoe tea, and ripe plum. The palate is full and round with flavors of black raspberry, caramel, vanilla, dark plum, and candy cane beets with a long velvety finish.
Pairs well with Veal Osso Bucco, pork fired rice or vegetarian lasagna.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This delivers a smooth and creamy impression with lightly spiced, cedary red cherries and a subtly earthy edge. The palate has a very fresh and crunchy feel with assertive oak tannins sitting up at the finish. Needs to settle. Try from 2020.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Medium ruby-purple, the 2016 Pinot Noir Extrovert blossoms slowly on the nose: blackberries, blueberries and black cherries give way to notes of potting soil, tar, dried herbs and floral touches. The palate is concentrated and plushly fruited, firm but juicy and with a long finish. Well done!
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Wine Enthusiast
Mixed floral aromas of clover and violets open into a mélange of mulberries and blueberries. Sourced principally from YamhillCarlton fruit, this hints gently at earth and stem. Aging 18 months in 40% new French oak adds a lightly toasty note.
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Wine Spectator
Svelte and well-defined, with appealing cherry and pomegranate flavors, laced with orange peel and cinnamon notes. Drink now through 2025.
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.