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Dark ruby-colored, the 2007 Estate offers an intense, sweet scent of black raspberry and cherry, wild strawberry, herb, earth, and dried flowers. Tasting the wine, a silky cream texture introduces flavors of blackberry, black raspberry, and bl...
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October, 2011 - I've been up to Beaux Freres twice in the last couple months, each time tasting through a half-dozen bottles from 2007, 2008, and 2009. Each time I've left the winery with same conclusion: I want to drink a bottle of Beaux Frer...read more

New York Times
#6 "Top Oregon Pinot noirs" 9-2-09

"Dark and tannic with aromas and flavors of black cherry and anise." - Eric Asimov

Soter's Pinot noir Beacon Vineya...
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2007 Vintage Tasting Notes

Le Cadeau's Equinoxe Pinot noir 07 is sublime. Nicely concentrated palate of ripe, sweet, juicy fruit - blackberry, dark raspberry, currant, blueberry, and red cherry - mingles with a sappy...
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Balanced and beautiful. A rich and graceful perfume of raspberry, rose, cherry, spice box and raspberry tea introduces the superbly layered Dusky Goose 07.

Replete with sweet, succulent fruit, the palate fans out with dark dried cherry, ras...
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John Albin's best Pinot noir and that is saying a lot. The 2006 J. Albin Reserve Pinot noir is made from the best part of Albin's Laurel Vineyard, a block of old vine Pommard grapes.

John may make highly regarded wine for some of Orego...
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Boedecker Cellars' 2006 Anderson Family Vineyard Pinot noir has the flavors and scents found in many 2006 vintage Pinot noirs. The 2006 vintage Oregon Pinots tend to have red currant and spice flavors, as this wine does. A very floral nose of red...
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Aromas of dark plum and black raspberry. The rich, round and suave flavors have good balance on the delicious, solidly complex and lingering finish. Brooks Winery's top Pinot noir, cellar for 5-8 years or drink now with several hours aeration. ...
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The Daedalus Nyarady Pinot noir is stylistically a little broader shouldered than the Daedalus Labyrinth, though still elegant, with incredibly concentrated fruit and depth of flavor. Winemaker Aron Hess calls it the Labyrinth ‘squared’. The wi...
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Dalla Vina's "La Famiglia" Pinot noir 06 is the winery's best Pinot noir to date. Only 32 cases were made from the winery's own Terra Vina Vineyard....
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2004 Vintage Tasting Notes

Wine Spectator 93 points

"Fine and focused, with a plush texture that presents the blueberry, plum and creamy...
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2007 Vintage Tasting Notes

Tanzer score 91 points "Bright red. Powerfully scented aromas of black raspberry and cherry compote. Plush red fruit flavors are given a refreshingly bitter edge by candied ...
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Ripe and full-bodied, this wine exudes both comfort and sophistication. Indulgent yet refined, the wine opens up with a bouquet filled with aromas of plum, blackberry, anise, leather...
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The Benton-Lane First Class Pinot noir is their highest level "reserve" bottling.

Wine Spectator 91 points

"Light and open-textured, a delicate style that offers a hint of caramel weaving through cherry and raspberry f...
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Very dark dense blackberry and blueberries in the nose, with a lushness that is oily, typical of fruit from the Seven Springs Vineyard. The fruit in the mouth is ripe and sweet with a smokey vanilla barrel note. The finish is long and lingeri...
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Prive Vineyard Le Nord Pinot noir 06 expresses the terroir of the vineyard more clearly than almost any Oregon Pinot noir. Scents of licorice, sweet anise seed, and a hint of red fruit introduce flavors of sweet berry with tantalizing hints of ros...
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Retour Wine Company 2006 Pinot noir Tanzer 92 Points "Bright red. Seductively perfumed aromas of raspberry, cherry preserves, Asian spices and a hint of smoked meat. Lively red berry flavors are given depth and a refreshingly bitt...
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Amazing, an Oregon treasure. The 07 Thomas is deeply aromatic. Still tightly wound, it is best left in the cellar a few years.

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Van Duzer Dijon Block Pinot noir 05 is made from grapes planted throughout the vineyard, all of a specific type of Pinot noir called the "Dijon Clones" of Pinot noir.

From the broad palate of Dijon clone Pinot Noirs grown on the Van Duzer Esta...
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Aromas evolve from wood spice, cedar, coffee and vanilla into Christmas spices, doug fir, cassis and a touch of citrus. The palate promises many years of deepening texture and complexity yet already offers rich black fruits, structured tannins...
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Dark fruits waft with black currants and blueberries, unfolding into a warm, spicy fragrance of cherry brandy, clove, sandalwood, leather, and pipe tobacco. A nice, upfront acidity explodes into a lush, unexpected juiciness, which lingers then me...
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The Audrey line is inspired by Hollywood legend, Audrey Hepburn....
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2006 Vintage Tasting Notes

Amalie Robert's best, scents of white flowers, graham, earth, and hints of wild mushroom introduce the wine. Flavors are predominantly black ...
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The wine displays aromatics of clove and flint that lead to a palate of concentrated dark cherry and blueberry compote. A hint of barrel toast flows seamlessly into the long soft finish. An elegant vineyard selection that has enough structure an...
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Broadley Vineyards Pinot Noir Claudia's Choice 07 - "Big leathery and spicy notes on the nose, wrapped around a blackberry/black cherry center. In the mouth the wine is full of plump and sweet dark cherry and blackberry fruit flavors, heavily ...
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2008 Tanzer - 92 points - Full ruby with a bright rim. Bright scents of black raspberry, cherry, rose and spicecake, with a hint of vanilla. At once dense and lively, offering zesty red and dark berry and cherry-cola flavors ...
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Aromas of rose petal, black cherry and black currant.

2009 Wine Advocate - 92 points - The 2009 Pinot Noir Dussin Vineyard is the Penner-Ash estate property that surrounds the winery and was planted in 1993. It is more stru...
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2008 Wine Advocate - 93 points - The 2008 Pinot Noir Cherry Grove Vineyard comes from a site just north of Gaston. It spent 9 months in 50% new oak followed by another 9 months in neutral barrels. A brooding bouquet of blue and b...
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Wine Spectator 90 points

"Firm in texture, with hints of loamy earth and white pepper playing against a lean bead of boysenberry and plum flavors on a medium frame. The fin...
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This wine is dark ruby in color and is loaded with sweet black cherry, cranberry, dark red raspberry, and licorice aromas and flavors. It is densely-packed, powerful, and firm, yet the texture is soothing. The finish has substantial tannins which ...
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Blackberry and black fruit flavors dominate this densely colored Pinot. There's nutmeg spice in both the scent and flavor. Blackberry, Marionberry, bramble, and black currant fruit are matched by a spicy lushness and silky tannins. - Avalon
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King Estate makes this higher end Pinot noir each year...
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David O'Reilly made less than 50 cases of this wine, his only AVA designate for 2009.

So approachable it's magnetic. Spicy raspberry and currant with hints of smoke and mineral, this fattens and lengthens through the finish. Very small pr...
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Aromas of rose petals, Asian spice and dark berry fruit are subtly complimented by lavender and wet stone. The wine has clean, elegant flavors of blackberries, raspberries and blueberries, and a hint of spice and minerality. The wine is incred...
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A tremendous perfumed nose blossoms in the glass. Co-mingling of rose petal, lavender, crushed raspberry, forest floor, fresh turned earth, incense, roasted meat, cedar, and barely there peppery spice.

The 08 Estate has purity, perfect str...
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Tanzer 92 points

Vivid red. Black raspberry and cherry on the nose, with complicating notes of anise, black tea and herbs. Smooth and sweet in the mouth, with concentrated dark berry preserve and bitter cherry flavor...
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2008 Tanzer - 93 points - Captivating, highly perfumed aromas of raspberry, pepper, Asian spices, cocoa powder and rose; brighter and more precise than the regular bottling. Then juicy and penetrating in the mouth, with brilli...
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2007 Vintage Tasting Notes

New York Times #1 "Top Oregon Pinot noirs" 9-2-09 - "You could taste the vintage in the freshness of this wine. It was complex as well, with aromas and flavors of earth, flowers and fruit, ...
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Wine Spectator 94 points

"Ripe, round and comp...
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Estate grown Pinot Noir from ROCO's Wits' End Vineyard in the Chehalem Mountains, this luscious wine is always at the top of its game. Deep garnet color with an elegant combina0on of spiced cherries jubilee in the nose. The wine is full and ric...
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Ah memories. This was one of the first wines I tasted after starting at Avalon and further cemented my adoration of Oregon Pinot. After re-tasting and reading through my original note from last year, I was pleasantly surprised at how much the w...
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Usually, I keep my cool when tasting wine at the store. I tend to "filter" my thoughts, not showing my hand, whethe...
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Eyrie Pinot noir Original Vines Reserve "Original Vines" - As the name implies, Eyrie's Reserve Pinot is from the original, first vines planted in Willamette Valley.

We opened the Eyrie Reserve again last week and attempted to capture i...
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Love and marriage, horse and carriage, you know the song - two things that go together perfectly. Add Dusky Goose and Oregon's 2008 vintage, a heavenly match. The nose is like perfume for wine lovers, exotic and comforting at the same time, wi...
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Exotic aromas of sandalwood, sarsaparilla, white pepper and crushed wild berries entice you. The flavors of the 08 Mineral Springs are pretty wound up - it has "cellar" written all over it. In every vintage, the Mineral Springs stands out as esp...
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The elegant...the classy...Ayoub's Estate Pinot noir is quintessential Dundee Hills: refined, silky, seamless. Open up the 2009, try it over several hours, and it's like a jazz quartet trading fours -- pretty red fruit on tenor sax, the melange ...
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Is is possible for a wine to be pretty and powerful at the same time? Bergstrom's de Lancellotti Pinot 09 answers emphatically "yes." Like the 08, you can get lost just sniffing the de Lancellotti, it's wheelbarrow-full of raspberries mixing w...
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Boisterous and big in personality, the Ayoub Brittan immediately won me over (hence its selection as a Reserve Pinot Club wine). Stretching out in all directions, you get wild berries from the vine that absolutely burst, with an underlying earthy ...
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Wine Advocate 92 points!

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2008 Wine Advocate - 93 points - The 2008 Pinot Noir Carter Vineyard from a site planted in 1983 and farmed by Ken Wright for the past 10 years, is dark ruby red with a sexy nose of underbrush, cherry blossom, spice box, and as...
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2008 Wine Spectator - 93 points - Silky, supple and distinctive for the deep mineral flavors that weave through dark berry, cherry and currant fruit, sailing easily into a cloud of fine tannins on the long, expressive finish. D...
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2008 Wine Advocate - 92 points - The medium ruby-colored 2008 Pinot Noir Savoia displays an ethereal perfume of cedar, spice box, rose petal, and assorted red fruits. Leaner and racier on the palate than its peers, this is an...
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2008 Wine Advocate - 93 points - The 2008 Pinot Noir Sovarae is sourced from two specific White Rose Vineyard blocks. Fragrant, remarkably expressive, and dense, the focus here is on succulent black fruits supported by a silky ...
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