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Beaux Freres is a small, extremely highly regarded winery in Oregon's Northern Willamette Valley. The Estate Vineyard, a mere 24 acres, produces some of the highest-rated North American Pinot noir, year after year.
Read "Beaux Freres - Introducing the Next Generation"
It was in the winter of 1992 that I first pulled up Mike Etzel's steep and scrabbly driveway. He'd released his first Beaux Freres Pinot noirs and I wanted them for my wine shop. The web was yet to come, Oregon was considered an obscure wine region producing more duds than winners, and not a fancy restaurant or tour van was to be seen. Ribbon Ridge was a road, not an appellation, and the chicken farmer down the road thought Mike was crazy to grow grapes.
I've sold every vintage of Mike's wines since that first fateful visit. Put them in our wine club, tasted each vintage numerous times, followed their development in the cellar. Admired Mike's commitment to a longterm vision of what his winery could become, allowing the vines to mature, the wines to age, and his knowledge of winemaking to grow. - Jean
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Upper Terrace has emerged as Beaux Freres' cult wine. It sells out the quickest despite being the most expensive of their three bottlings. Why? Because it's a blockbuster!
Richer and darker than the Estate, the 2009 Upper Terrace oozes with...
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All of the forward, sweet tannins and fresh fruit flavors that characterize the 2009 vintage. There's a note of forest floor and fresh turned earth - and hints of Chinese Five Spice and bramble - under the dominant red cherry, berry, and curra...
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Oregon Pinot noir
Region - Willamette
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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
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So delicious and pure, so graceful and balanced. The 09 BF flows from aromas to finish seamlessly, giving you tremendous red fruit, accented by white flowers and spice, with a voluminous finish.
I love Beaux Freres Pinots. And I always have a...
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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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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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Energetically drinkable, greatly expanding as it glides seamlessly across your palate. Dark berries with bits of bramble, adding cola spice, dried cherries, sweet cigar and thyme notes on the long, fruit-filled finish. I love the combo of r...
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Avalon's tasting note - 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.
"Light in color ...
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Darkest of the Beaux Freres Pinots, the Upper Terrace serves up an intense scent of black cherry and raspberry, mingling with violet, dried rose and forest floor. Velvety and sensual in texture, deep flavors of creamy black cherry and spice b...
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Just two barrels - 50 cases - of 2009 Coattails were made, since the Etzel brothers have very (very) stringent standards as they work to establish themselves as a top-tier Oregon winery.
Coattails is built for long-term aging. So give a l...
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Collectible magnum!
New York Times
"Top Oregon Pinot noirs" 9-2-09
"Floral aromas, supple but intense fruit flavors." - Eric Asimov
The most approachable and ready to...
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Yep, a Beaux Freres wine at $15. It's a 100% grenache Rose, from grapes grown at the Beaux Freres Estate Vineyard. They make about 100 cases each year. Primarily, it's what the Etzels drink at home, and they share it with longtime customers and ...
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