Cherry Hill Winery Pinot noir Estate 04
For the 03 Vintage: Wine Spectator rating 91 points: "Relatively firm, with lively, emphatic raspberry and plum flavors that sail through the finish, lingering seamlessly. Best from 2007 through 2013." H.S.
After over a year in bottle, the wine is well integrated and shows the positive effects of careful cellaring. The wine has a lovely light scent of cherry with a hint of oak. The flavors are of spicy blackberry, raspberry, and a bit of bing cherry- there's a distinct Burgundian sweetness to the wine, maybe partially from the choice of oak for aging? Finish is moderately long and classic, with well integrated, fine grained tannins artfully balanced, and lingering sweet fruit notes. -jy
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From the winery: "Cherry Hill Winery Estate Pinot Noir is an elegant light delicate style of Pinot Noir. This beautiful wine was hand picked from our Pommard Clone and aged in neutral French oak for one year. This soft subtle Pinot Noir from the Willamette Valley will only improve with age, but she is a beauty right now."
Tasting Notes:
"Cherry Hill Winery produced its first vintage from our new winery in 2003. The Cherry Hill Winery 2003 estate pinot noir was handcrafted from our Pommard clone which makes up 55% of our 55 acre estate vineyard. Our new state of the art gravity feed winery provided us with the tools to carefully handcraft this most difficult grape into a light delicate pinot noir. The fruit for this beautiful wine was hand picked from our best blocks where yields are restricted to two tons per acre. The grapes were destemmed and gravity fed to our small fermenters where each lot was carefully monitored. The wine aged in neutral French oak for one year and is a light delicate wine with beautiful color and texture. Like all things of beauty, this wine will improve with age, but it is a beauty now!"
Food and Serving Suggestions:
"Pinot Noir is known as the most food-friendly grape and Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs rank with the best from Burgundy and California. We recommend entrees of fish, beef, wild game, and pastas."
