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Review: My favorite Longplay wine yet, displaying a pretty transparency and silkiness. Vibrant red fruit and hints of coffee and dried thyme saunter out of the glass. This brand-new release benefits from air - a quick decant or 15... |
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The 2010 Underwood Pinot noir's limpid, translucent color is more that of a real Burgundy than a New World pinot noir. The mix of black cherry and bramble in the aroma is also convincing, finishing with hints of mulberry and balanced acidity, and... |
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The Craftsman shows intense red fruit aromatics right form the start, leading to a forward palate of raspberry and cranberry then seamlessly transitioning to a complex core of more black fruit and winter spices. A bright, well textured and sens... |
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The aromas practically "run away" from the bottle when you first open it but as you capture them you will find smoke, ripe black cherry, pomegranate and a hint of pepper. The fruit flavors come flooding at you upon first taste and you find bing ch... |
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Erin describes the wine: "Rose petals and violets - the most floral of the four new wines. Fresh, with rich, full body. Pure fruit and floral notes fill the flavor, and the finish has a touch of wood spice, cinnamon and violets."
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The Cancilla Vineyard Pinot noir's beguiling and cerebral aromas make you want to pour a glass and smell it for hours. Dark red fruit, rosemary, and wet stones expand into a palate of dark berries, bright acidity and a picture-perfect finish of s... |
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The Haden Fig Bjornson Vineyard Pinot is round, bold and dark, all within the context of graceful Pinot noir. Blackberry, black raspberry, violet, vibrant and lush. The finish is like biting into a mouthful of summer blackberries.
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This wine is a blend of all three Pinot Noir vineyards. It greets you with cassis and red currant. On the palate the wine is very focused and lively, with a core of dried cranberries, tobacco, cola, and a touch of fresh oregano. A touch of flint... |
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Juicy sweet cherry, round and creamy - fresh fruit balanced by classic Pinot noir tannins - silky and approachable but well made for cellaring. Love this wine. - Jean
One of the best values among the highest rated wines in Wine Advocate's 2...
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This is a reserve bottling, made from the best eight barrels of Erin's Hidden Rock Vineyard and the best eight barrels from the Eola Springs Vineyard. Hidden Rock is the northernmost vineyard in the Eola Amity Hills, while Eola Springs is next to... |
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Recommneded Best Buy!
In our minds this vintage is the style we have been shooting for when we think of what we are looking for out of this particular bottling. The mix of wines is sensational incorporating barrels from s... |
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Rainstorm was launched in January 2012 with this Pinot noir and a Pinot gris. The grapes for the Pinot noir were sourced from vineyards in both the Willamette and Umpqua Valleys. The result is a fruit forward wine with flavors of cherries and pome... |
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The 2010 Haden Fig Pinot noir is all about R's, starting with highly Recommended. It's beautiful Red fruit is Round and creamy, with a Rustic edge and a mouthwatering finish. A Rosemary Ribbon carries through the wine, accenting the sweet cherri... |
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I taste a ton of Oregon Pinot and in my opinion, this is the best value Oregon Pinot on the market right now. There is so much packed into this wine: beautifully vivid flavors, surprising density and persistence, perfect balance. Seriously, if th... |
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A cool, elegant, pure and cleanly delivered red berry fruit nose that is very pinot in style and character introduces beautifully detailed and textured middle weight flavors that are graceful and impressively well-balanced. Note that this will... |
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Lush and energetic, Ken Wright's value blend delivers heaping scoops of fresh crushed berries. It's really a "friendly" Pinot, encouraging you to get to know it. Most of the famous vineyard's Ken works with are blended in this bottle, for half ... |
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New Pinot from Patty Green!
The wines from this area of the Yamhill-Carlton Appellation show tremendous darkness of fruit, and what they lack in initial palate elegance they make up for in black fruited intensity. This wine packs in some plum... |
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Belle Pente Dundee Hills Pinot noir 09
$24.40 Retail
$21.96
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The Dundee Hills has a plumper core of fruit, showing bright pie cherries up front with a thread of dark currant that helps usher in the spicy finish of nutmeg, white pepper and fresh earth. While much of the hype from last year's wines focused ... |
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The most recent success from Westrey. Red fruit - mostly crushed raspberry and wild mountain strawberry - subtle smoke, and white flowers. The WV 09 melds forward fruit with a bright and lively character, making a great intro to Oregon's 2009 v... |
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A pleasant fruity wine with a berry finish. The grapes were sourced from the Juliard Vineyard, the estate vineyard of the Crumbled Rock Winery.
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The medium ruby red 2008 Pinot Noir Of Poetry and Roses displays an enticing bouquet of exotic spices, incense, floral notes, and assorted red fruits. This sets the stage for a sweetly fruited, elegant wine that also contains plenty of density... |
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Note - the vintage was listed incorrectly as 2009 rather than 2008.
Patrick continues to make some of the best values in Oregon Pinot noir. The Black and the Red is among the highest rated wines in Wine Advocate's 10-31-2011 annual review o... |
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From a micro-boutique winery south of our Corvallis shop. You're going to hear more about Brigadoon but for now, their tiny production of 165 cases of Lylee will get gobbled up in Oregon. This is fantastic everyday Pinot. An Insider's Oregon Pin... |
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Highly recommended by Avalon Wine.
Michael Lundeen manages Walnut City Wineworks, a cooperative of winemakers in downtown McMinnville. His own winery makes two labels - his value label, Lundeen, and his estate vineyard Gen... |
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Made with fruit from the biodynamically managed Johan Vineyard in the Van Duzer Corridor north of Monmouth, Oregon. ... |
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The first Bruno Pinot made by Evesham's new owner, Erin Nuccio (who's Haden Fig wines have become customer favorites), will also be the last Bruno Pinot. Boy did he finish strongly, offering a soft, red fruit melange of cherry, strawberry, and r... |
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St. Innocent's Mark Vlossak makes this wine. Intense rose perfume and expansive,round, sweet red raspberries and cherries. The fruit is balanced by an undercurrent of earthy minerality and spice in the finish. - Jean
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Wild berries and smoke waft from the glass in this fresh and vibrant Pinot. Juicy and superbly balanced, you can drink this tonight or easily hold it for a few years.
This will be a repeating theme for nearly all of our 2010 Oregon Pinot offering... |
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All Estate Vineyard fruit, this wine is made for easy drinking - dense, rich, smooth, sweet raspberry and cherry with a hint of spiciness. Ready to go right now. Great value. Enjoy with a hearty steak or sip while reading in front of the firepl... |
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The Hamacher "H" Pinot noir 09 has aromas of black raspberry, black cherry, violets, brown sugar and spice box. Approachable now, this fruit forward pinot will cellar for up to 6 years.
2008 Vintage Tasting Notes
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Yumm. Might just become your "house" red wine. A juicy, fruit forward red cherry and strawberry Pinot with spice and smoky notes. Very easy drinking, sip this or serve with burgers or pizza. I love the balance and the fact that the winemaker isn... |
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Big nose of toasted nuts, cherries, black raspberry, and crushed fresh herbs. Flavors repeat the profile, adding more red cherry flavor and a hint of earth. Smooth finish with just enough grip to structure the sweet fruit core. - Jean
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Big, rich, easy drinking, make this your everyday "House Wine" like dozens of restaurants do!
Formerly produced somewhat erratically (some years they didn't bottle any of it), Patricia Green Cellars has decided to make a decent quantity of th... |
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Red fruit aromas with hints of chocolate and coffee lead to an elegant blend of fresh cherry & berries. Dark fruits fill the palate with dry tannins; low alcohol contributes a soft body.
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Acrobat Pinot noir 2010 - Brand new release of the 2010 vintage, Nov. 2011.
2009 Vintage Tasting Notes
2009 Wine Enthusiast - 91 points - As bright and fruity as a Beaujolais, this youthful pinot le... |
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The lavish aromas of plum, blackberry, and cinnamon are the first thing you notice. This dark red wine is decadently rich with layers and great focus.
2008 Vintage Tasting Notes
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2009 Vintage Tasting Notes
"The 2009 Villages Cuvée is a blend of Pinot noir grapes from four different vineyards. The largest portion was grown at Vitae Springs Vineyard and comes from both new and old Pinot noir blo... |
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This knocks me out. It drew me in with the first waft from the glass - I want to take this beauty home. Pure prettiness. Elegant aromas of red fruit, sandalwood, and flowers rise from the glass. Silky and soft, this makes for great early drinkin... |
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Good value label from Union Wine Company - Aromas of black and red cherry, vanilla spice. Medium-weight, with balanced acid; nicely expressed red cherry, red raspberry, mineral, a hint of spice.
From the winery:
The 2008 Kings Ridge Pi... |
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Stafford Hill's Pinot noir, made by hot winemaker Jay Somers, who was featured in the national press for his new joint venture (J Christopher) with famed German winemaker Dr. Loosen.
Stafford Hill is one of Oregon's most affordable Pinot no... |
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What a nose! Pomegranate, raspberries and lilies with a hint of wild rose. Made from old vine Pinot noir - the complexity Tad gets from the grapes is sweet, earthy, savory, and deep. Raspberry and cherry flavors alternate with touches of dusty h... |
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This Ransom Pinot noir is named "Selection" as it is made from a selection of vineyards in the Eola-Amity Hills AVA of Oregon's Willamette Valley. Bright, fresh raspberries and cherries mingle with wild violets in the nose. The red fruit flavor... |
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Fine, younger vine Estate Pinot noir from up-and-coming winery. ... |
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The nose is typically cherry, strawberry with a hint of orange rind and anise. The oak is subtle throughout the aromas and taste with a nice vanillin quality. The fruit flavors carry through with moderate weight and finish. The wine will serv... |
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2006 Vintage Tasting Notes
Made from the young vine fruit of two fine vineyards, Adams Vineyard in the Chehalem Mountains and Jubilee Vine- yard in Dallas, OR. It exemplifies the bright, vibrant flavors of the 2006 vin... |
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2006 Vintage Tasting Notes
Exceptional value. Juicy raspberry and cherry fruit glides softly on the palate, while the finish lifts with balancing acidity, subtle pie spice, and earth. Nice length, echoing bright ... |
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Erin describes the wine: "Fresh and dry, with a light color but weight and texture, body with glycerol richness. Fresh strawberry and bright cherry in the scent and flavor with a hint of exotic fruit - kiwi and watermelon rind on the finish."
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Raspberry and brambles begin in the nose and follow through in the palate. Subtle notes of rose petals layered with pomegranate and hints forest floor, this is a youthful wine with plenty of structure to enjoy today or cellar for several years.... |
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A perennial favorite of mine. This racy little crowd-pleaser is a blend of Pinot gris, Gewurztraminer, and Rieslaner. Floral notes and wet stones on the nose lead to a light citrus and mineral driven summer white that goes great while mowing the ... |
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A rich and meaty nose, melding raspberry and cherry with underpinnings of coffee grounds and woodsiness. Cola spice and lush fruit carry the finish. An unusually great value.
2008 Vintage
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Cameron Pinot noir Willamette Valley 2010
$18.95 Retail
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Attention! This dynamite value Pinot will be gone in a flash. Dark fruits and herbs, fuller in texture and structure while being totally sip-able. It took the winery a few hours (literally!) to sell their production of 2010 Willamette Valley Pinot... |
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