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Shea's Homer Pinot noir has been in the critics' best-of-the-vintage lists since it was first produced. It is always the first to sell out and always the wine for which we receive the most requests. Why? Because when you hand-se... |
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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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Westrey Abbey Ridge 2010 defines the allure of Pinot noir - ethereal and graceful with an amazing ability to envelop your palate in a sweetness that only Pinot noir can deliver.
The Abbey Ridge smells scandalously good. Seriously, it smells a... |
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This assertive 2010 Shea Pinot opens with aromas of blackberries, caramel, black pepper, and a blend of grated nutmeg and clove. The spice-tinged blackberry core expands through the long finish. Cellar for 2-3 years and up to 8-10. 100% Wadenswil ... |
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Omero is truly an "insider's" winery. In their first two vintages combined (2208 and 2009), they produced a total of only 150 cases!
The 2010 Iliad opens with vivid raspberry highlighted by notes of dried herb, strawberry and sweet cherry th... |
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The 2009 Pinot Noir Reserve is a bit more concentrated and complex. Despite its light color, it reveals considerable depth and concentration for the vintage, incipient complexity, and an elegant personality It is likely to evolve for 2-3 year... |
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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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Cameron Abbey Ridge Pinot noir 09
$54.95 Retail
$49.45
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Winemaker John Paul says: “If you are looking for a possibly great vintage from Abbey Ridge, this is the one to invest in. The aromatics which developed in the wine from the 35 year-old Wadenswil block certainly stunned us and forced us into an e... |
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Wafts of violets, cola spice, and fresh red cherries lead into juicy and sweet array of red fruits and touches of blueberry. The 2010 Estate is loaded with bright character, finishing with delectable fruit and a smidgen of grilled herbs. The Estat... |
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Dark fruit scents mingle with toast and sweet tobacco, signaling the entry into this dark, vivid, and rich 2010 Pinot. Spicy black currant and raspberry picks of hints of coffee and Chinese five-spice blend, before the finish sings with fresh blac... |
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Deep, crimson color with bold and complex layers on the nose and palate. Sun ripened berries, cacao and brown sugar are wrapped up with dark angelic spices. Open and decant to savor the beauty of Asha now or cellar for years to come! Made from a s... |
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The 2009 Arley's Leap is more deeply colored and a bit more structured [than his other reviewed wines.] A hint of herbs, spices, floral notes, cherry, and raspberry inform the nose of a sweetly-fruited, velvety-textured, nicely proportioned, le... |
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A real wow-er. Owen Roe's top ranked, biggest baddest Oregon Pinot noir.
All of Owen Roe's trademark rich, big style contained in a framework of classic Pinot noir. A shout-out to the best California Pinots in its combination of full bod... |
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2008 Wine Advocate - 92 points - The 2008 Pinot Noir Estate is more deeply colored with a seductive perfume of smoke, rose petal, incense, terroir notes, black cherry and black raspberry. Mouth-filling, intense, already c... |
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The 2009 Pinot Noir Estate is an elegant, spicy, savory wine that is complete on the palate from start to finish. Seamless and lengthy, it can be approached now but should provide enjoyment for another 6-7 years. - Jay Miller
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2009 Wine Advocate - 90 points - The 2009 Pinot Noir Justice Vineyard (owned by Bethel Heights) was made with 27% whole clusters. More expressive aromatically than the Willamette Valley cuvee, it is a savory, easy-going, nicely ... |
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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
Crowley Wines Pinot n... |
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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.
We spent a... |
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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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Jason Lett's Pinots have one thing in common across the vintages - every wine has aromas that produces a Pavlovian response...it makes you salivate for what you're about to taste. Fresh-picked raspberries, the ineffable allure of morel mushroo... |
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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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Brighter, higher-toned red fruit aromas and overall character with an underlying sexiness. Citrus notes marry with Jim's typical Maresh sweetness, almost like a pinch of brown sugar. Beautiful silky precision, packed full of complexity that will ... |
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We have a one-barrel exclusive for you. It is the first 2010 Arterberry Maresh Pinot noir, from Juliard Vineyard. And it is a story of scarcity. Normal yields for Oregon Pinot noir are around 2 tons per acre. In 2010, Jim Maresh got 0.5 tons from ... |
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A remarkable presentation of the terroir of the Seven Springs Vineyard, and more broadly, a statement of what makes Oregon Pinot noirs unique and exciting.
From the first impression to the final moment, an extraordinary sense of the vineyard... |
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Not to be confused with the Maresh Vineyard, the Marsh Vineyard is part of the Yamhill-Carlton AVA and this wine is made from 100% Marsh grapes. Marsh has the distinction of being certified as LIVE Sustainable vineyard.
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Powerful yet refined. The nose has notes of bright red cherries, dark berries, herbs, cinnamon and nutmeg. When we took our first sip, we thought "Yum"...and then came more complexity in the form of spice box, creamy cherry pie filling and a lon... |
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Winemaker Robert Brittan: "A warm vintage and good, mature grapes make a rich, ripe wine that retains structure and shows the character of the vineyard."
The 2009 Winderlea Estate is a lush and rich reflection of a warm vintage. Flavors of re... |
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An expressive nose lifts this right out of the glass: spiced cherry, red plum, cinnamon, lavender and incense fills your senses. Satiny-textured dark cherry, plum and raspberry picks up a ribbon of fine tannins that elongates the finish and will a... |
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Jim Maresh's first Pinot noir from the Winderlea Vineyard. Winderlea is next door to the Maresh Vineyard and, like Maresh, is considered one of the top vineyards making Oregon wine. ... |
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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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2009 Wine Advocate - 90 points - The entry level 2009 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley is a six vineyard, multi-regional blend that was made with 20% whole clusters and aged for 11 months in 13% new French oak. Medium ruby red in co... |
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Ken Wright's estate vineyard, the Savoya Vineyard's bright, fresh berry fruit flavors are tinted with a distinctive hint of sandalwood and spice.
2009 Wine Spectator - 92 points - Crisp in texture, with a thin veil of t... |
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The 2010 Willamette Valley Pinot is ripe, dense and intense. The nose is positively lush - roses, violets, and red raspberry. There's a distinct, unique hint of spice, part of that special Beaux Freres style.
The color is light, and then you... |
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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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Every vintage, Jim Maresh has a surprise up his sleeve. This year, it's his Weber Vineyard Pinot. Holy sh*t this is good! The most evolved and showy of the 2010s, this opens with an awesome array of sweet red fruit, spiced orange, cinnamon stick... |
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2008 Wine Advocate - 92 points - The medium ruby-colored 2008 Pinot Noir Savoya 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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Marcus Goodfellow's 2009 wines are on the leader board for the vintage just as the 2008's were among my favorites last year.
We recently tasted through all of his 2009 vintage wines and the brightest star in my book was the Winter's Hill P... |
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Last Call
in 2010, Food & Wine Magazine called Brick House Gamay Noir 08 "The Greatest Gamay Outside of Beaujolais."
Brick House's hardest to get wine, the Gamay noir is not distributed outside Oregon. ... |
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Expressively aromatic, the Gestalt is a balanced melange of black cherry, black raspberry, red licorice, tobacco leaf, and spice box. Intense, concentrated, and vibrant on the palate, this elegant, suave Pinot is beautifully proportioned and excep... |
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This medium bodied wine has lively acidity. It is a beautiful, ruby red wine with raspberry aromas and red fruit flavors. The minerality comes through on the finish.
Due to a very cool Spring, crop size was small so only 400 cases were produce... |
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Broad and voluminous, the Evenstad Reserve 08 is a bigger Pinot, sporting black cherry and plum alongside baking spices and toast. It will continue to benefit from time in the cellar. - Marcus
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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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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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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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2009 Wine Advocate - 91 points - The 2009 Pinot Noir Souris is a two vineyard blend fermented with native yeasts and aged for 18 months in used barrels. It is a forward, easy-going wine with an attractive spicy perfume, savory r... |
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2009 Vintage Tasting Notes
2009 Wine Spectator - 93 points - Light on its feet, but shows some flesh to the raspberry, cherry, cream and cinnamon flavors, pulsing gently against polished tannins on... |
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I love where this takes me - cherry pie from the oven, roses, licorice. Creamy black cherry enters the picture along with sweet herbs. Lundeen Reserve 09 does two things perfectly: balances silk and spice, and creates an ageable wine that screams ... |
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2009 Wine Spectator - 92 points - Polished and focused, with gorgeous cherry, currant and mineral flavors mingling seamlessly on the taut structure, finishing sleek and balanced with mouthwatering acidity. Drink now through 2019. - H.S.
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2009 Wine Advocate - 91 points - The 2009 Pinot Noir Temperance Hill Vineyard was aged in 26% new oak. Pleasing herbal notes, a characteristic of this site, are intertwined with spice box, incense, black cherry, and black raspb... |
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2009 Wine Advocate - 91 points - The 2009 Pinot Noir Stermer Vineyard from a Dundee Hills site displays exotic spices, incense, dried herbs, cherry, and raspberry. In the glass it opens to reveal outstanding depth for the vint... |
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The 2009 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard is an exceptionally perfumed wine with inviting aromas of exotic spices, rose petal, blueberry, and black cherry. Layers of flavor, a velvety texture, and impeccable balance make for a textbook Pinot Noir.
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Opens with a nose of classic Burgundy - compelling and complex, multi-layered and detailed. An amazing swirl of tension between elegant fruit and fresh turned earth and herbs. Made from the best six barrels of Pinot from the vintage, a scant 120 c... |
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This is the 11th vintage from this vineyard. "..piercingly red fruited and shows terrific minerality. The Old Vine bottling is never a big boy but it has incredible persistence and is layered in a way that gives it depth that mere concentration ca... |
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"Notorious" is what the winery considers its most unique and exotic wine. This vintage is no exception.
2009 Vintage Tasting Notes
2009 Tanzer - 93 points - Deep, bright red. Explosively perfumed no... |
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Ripe and dark fruit driven, Raptor's Shea Vineyard Pinot will please any Shea fan. Dark cherries, black currants and blackberries mesh with vanilla, tobacco, and violets to create a robust Pinot. - Marcus
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Aromas of red raspberries accompanied by fresh Oregon strawberries with brown spice and cedar. This wine is elegant and intense.
2008 Vintage Tasting Notes
“This complex and intriguing wine offers
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The 09 Cuvee is deep garnet and has heady aromas of spiced cherry, black raspberry, cassis and fennel along with perfumes of cedar closets and spring lilacs. Flavors include blueberries, sweet tamarind, and Oregon black caps with hints of black li... |
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Silky smooth, tones of blueberry and violets and herbs de Provence. From they winery's estate fruit.... |
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2008 Vintage Tasting Notes
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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DOUBLE GOLD "Best of the Best" at the Oregon Wine Awards 2012
2009 Tanzer - 90 points - The 09 opens with a hint of stone fruit and dark cherries. It reveals subtleties of mineral, vanillin, spice and dust... |
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This is the tenth vintage of the Cumberland Reserve. It has aromas of dark chocolate, dark raspberry and black cherries mixed with floral notes of violets and vanilla spice. This wine is fruit diven and has a long, mouthwatering finish. Approachab... |
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Walter Scott La Combe Verte "Second Release" 2010
$24.00 Retail
$21.60
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This should have "Reserve" on the label, since it has another dimension of complexity, both in the nose and texture. Exotic and spicy, come-hither aromas. A creamy, rounded palate with a little bit of muscle. And a snappy raspberry and fresh blac... |
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