Bergstrom Pinot noir Shea Vineyard 08
Bergstrom Pinot noir Shea Vineyard 08 - The 2008 Shea Vineyard from Bergstrom is a deep, dark, black-ruby colored wine with a HUGE nose of Shea Vineyard terroir! Big ripe dark fruits of blackberry and cherry are intermingled with tar, dark roasted coffee, tobacco, sweet spices of cinnamon and loamy earth framed by oaky lusciousness. The wine has enormous power with mouth-filling texture. This is 110% Shea at its best. The wine concludes with big, decadent , luscious fruit and silky tannins that melt away to showcase a long spicy mineral-laden finish. - Josh Bergstrom
This is Bergstrom's sixth vintage from the mighty Shea Vineyard. We have invested heavily over the years in this site and Mr. Dick Shea and his family have been kind to oblige our winery with 10% of the entire vineyard!
Bergstrom has one of the largest controlling portions of this great vineyard with five separate clonal blocks of Pinot Noir totaling 13.5 acres!
Once again, this bottling only represents the best selection of barrels from this entire lot, representing only 30%, chosen to be bottled under the Bergstrom single vineyard label. - the Winery
2007 Vintage Tasting Notes
Bergstrom Pinot noir Shea Vineyard 07 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 93 Points:
“The 2007 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard was sourced from multiple sites within this large property. Bergstrom takes 14 acres (approximately 10%) of Shea’s production from which he produces his “red meat and cheese Pinot”. Aromas of sandalwood, spice box, violets, black cherry, and black raspberry lead to a structured, ripe, layered Pinot with outstanding depth, balance, and length. The succulent flavors are about as hedonistic as it gets in this vintage. Give it 2-3 years of additional cellaring and drink it from 2012 to 2020.”
The Shea Vineyard Pommard Block is reminiscent of a young Barbaresco with its aromas of dried roses, cedar, leather, pipe tobacco and bright red fruits wrapped in a spicy incense. The wine is tight upon entry and packed with red fruit (currant, lingonberry, red cherry) flavors which gives way to a good broad mouthfeel and long lingering spicy flavors that are wrapped in a firm frame of acidity and fine-grained tannins. This wine should be drunk between 2012 and 2018.
Dark ruby in color, this wine is extremely mineral in the nose with lots of spice and earth, lush dark fruits as well as some toasty oak spice character to accent. The mouthfeel is focused and rich at the same time with very dark red fruits showing up again. This wine has a great purity to it with nice acid and tannin that will make this one of the longest lived Shea Vineyard Pinot Noirs that Bergström has made to date. Drink from 2010 to 2020. - Josh Bergstrom
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2006 Vintage Tasting Notes
From the winery: "The mighty Shea Vineyard is divided into two hillsides which stand like islands alone in the
forested hillsides between Yamhill and Newberg. This 135 acre vineyard site is perhaps one of the best known Oregon vineyard sites to wine consumers from around the United States and beyond due to the consistent high quality of ripe fruit, precise farming practices and the numerous "blue-chip" Oregon and California wineries making wine from this terroir.
2003 Vintage Tasting Notes
With an intense black cherry robe, this wine's bouquet is captivating, showing off the blackberry, black currant, dark cherry and fragrant spices. This wine will do very well in both the near and long-term.
Dick Shea planted his 135 acre vineyard in the 1980's and quickly garnered a reputation for having one of Oregon's best known and loved vineyard sites. His vineyard's name has graced the labels of some of our best and brightest colleagues for the past decade! The 2003 is the first ever Shea Vineyard by Bergstrom Wines, and we are very happy with the results. A mixture of Willakenzie Soils, Dijon clones 777 and 115 from two separate blocks in the vineyard, intelligent farming and very low yields has produced a wine of incredible richness and soft power. This wine is a real crowd pleaser!
