Winemaker Notes
This wine off ers notes of black cherry, black raspberry, rosewater, and rooibos tea along with hints of baking spice. Those flavors carry onto a supple and balanced palate with refined tannins and great length.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley is composed of fruit from Yamhill-Carlton and the Dundee Hills. It's bursting with generous scents of cranberry, blueberry, blood orange, mushrooms and tobacco. The light-bodied palate features understated, spicy fruit. It's silky in texture, energized by vibrant acidity and has a long finish with a flourish of spicy accents.
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Wine Spectator
Fragrant and generous with elegantly structured raspberry and guava flavors that reveal baking spice and black tea accent that build tension toward refined tannins. Drink now through 2031. 5,232 cases made.
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James Suckling
Aromas of red cherries, moist earth and dried flowers leading to a refreshing palate of red and dark fruit. A medium-bodied wine with smooth tannins and nice balance that has a crunchy, satisfying finish.
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.