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Bergström is on the top of anyone's list of Oregon's best wineries. As one of the youngest commercial winemakers in Oregon, winemaker Josh Bergstrom rocketed to fame with a series of very highly rated vintages. His wines continue to rate an almost cult status among Oregon Pinot noir aficionados.
Read "Bergström Winery On Winemaking - For Josh Bergström, The Vineyard Quality is Job One"
Bergström Winery believes that winemaking begins and ends in the vineyard. 90% of what you enjoy in a glass of wine depends on a vineyard's performance in any given year. The winemaker's hand must not surpass its role of simply allowing a natural fermentation to take place in his cellar. We believe that Oregon Pinot Noir must have an intense purity of fruit that can only be achieved through natural, non-interventionist, non-industrial, artisan wine-growing.
Bergström learned from studies in France that intense farming of grape crops produces the best wine. And Bergström's wines are lovely and intense with plenty of fruit flavor lingering in the mouth.
Josh Bergstrom on tasting wine:
"...after some years of experience of tasting through young barrels of wine we look for two things: structure and potential. "
"Now, by structure, I mean the trinity of
1.) fruit
2.) acid,
3.) and tannin.
All of these elements are essential in determining a wine's character, balance, texture, appeal and potential for cellaring. If one is greater than the other a wine can be unbalanced, which can either be good or bad depending on our personal palates.
Heavy on the fruit but low on the acid an tannin can mean that we are holding in our glass a "fruit-bomb" destined to please most people but has little potential for pairing with diverse foods or lasting long in the cellar.
Too much acid or tannin with a deficit of fruit could mean that this wine needs some years to open up in the bottle to show its true potential although an imbalance in these two departments may never allow a wine to truly shine.)
But when all three are in agreement, a wine can really show us the character of the vintage and the vineyard with promise for the future."
Bergstrom's Most Popular Wines
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If you haven't heard how good the 2010 vintage is, you will! It is a virtual guarantee that Bergstrom's Shea 2010 will be one of the highest rated wines of the vintage. Electric aromas of bright cherries, allspice, sweet earth and toasty oak. Th...
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Gregory Ranch is Bergstrom's newest addition to their collection of single vineyard Pinots. Wow! We all loved the sexy aromas. Wild, creamy blackberries, morel mushrooms, hints of dried herbs and spices. Seamless and silky, Gregory Ranch can be o...
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I'm saving up so I can stock my cellar with the 2010's. Pretty and inviting from the first pour, it shows a purity that has me giddy.
Each vintage of Bergstrom's Old Stones Pinot noir seems to get better, with the 2010 being a total st...
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The flagship 2009 Pinot Noir Bergstrom Vineyard comes from a site planted in 1999. Dark ruby red in color, it proffers aromas of Asian spices, balsam wood, violets, black cherry, and black raspberry. Combining power with elegance unusual for thi...
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2009 Wine Advocate - 92 points - The 2009 Pinot Noir Cumberland Reserve, a blend of vineyards with Shea and De Lancellotti playing the leading roles. Dark in color for the vintage, it displays an earthy minerality, violets, cedar...
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This morning's San Francisco Chronicle's article on Oregon Chardonnay featured the Old Stones 09. They said: "Bergstrom's extraordinary talents put a lot of delicious into what he portrays as an early-drinking bottle. Opulent and intense, this shows a subtle oak impact and deep, creamy tones to the bright apple, Meyer lemon and apricot flavors, with a wild-mushroom hint. Don't be afraid to give it a couple years to evolve."
Looking for a Chardonnay to impress your friends and please all of their tastes? Old Stones is it. Ripe citrus and pear is fat and lush without the clunkiness of oak. The name is fitting - notes of wet stone pervade the wine and combined with...
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375 ml Half bottle. Great for traveling, picnics, thank you gift.
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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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Double size bottle- great for parties and gifts. You can only purchase the Magnum here as Bergstrom bottles this size exclusively for us.
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Extremely elegant and nectar-like floral notes of night-blooming jasmine and rock daphne burst from the glass and swirl around and through the lime, quinine, petrol, saline and mineral flavors. Sweet baking spices lace this round and viscous win...
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 94 points
Wine Spectator 92 points
Packed with fruit power, a stony minerality and long, custardy finish, Sigrid Chardonnay ...
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