Evesham Wood Pinot Noir Seven Springs 06
winery: Evesham Wood
Winemaker's notes: " This wine unfortunately represents our last bottling from the renowned Seven Springs vines. As has been the case from our first ever wine from the site, in 1986, the fruit stems from the older, own-rooted Pommard planting in the SE corner of the vineyard. Considering the extremely ripe nature of the vintage, we were pleased to achieve a wine with intense varietal character and complex earthy tones to balance with its concentrated dark plummy fruit and luscious texture. Although fairly soft on the pallate, underlying tannins should allow for good aging over a 8-10 year period. Harvested @ 25.2º Brix. on Sept. 29, Alc. 14.9%. It was aged for 18 months in Francois Freres Nevers and Tronçais barrels (25% new). 197 cases were bottled without fining or filtration on May13, 2008."
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We at Avalon Wine were impressed with this wine for its richness and layered complexity. A vibrant, happy-making wine. It continues to dance in my memory, a wine of top quality at a lower price than most comparable Oregon Pinots.
2003 vintage notes: Forbes Magazine named this wine one of the "25 Great American Wines" in Sept 2005, and said: "This is a super wine for the money, offering the perfect balance between vibrant fruit and good, soft tannins. It also shows tantalizing hints of smoky earthy flavors that will only intensify with time. In fact, this is a wine for keeping, five years at least."
