Subject: New Extraordinary Oregon Pinot Noir From Brittan Vineyards: Limited Quantites Now In Stock!

Robert Brittan was winemaker at Stags’ Leap Winery in Napa for 16 years before moving to Oregon to fulfill a passion to make pinot noir in the cooler climates of Willamette Valley. Below is what the critics think about his new adventure!
“He has succeeded in taming the herbaceousness often present in McMinnville fruit while producing wines with low pH and firm acidity sure to send bolts of rapture through lovers of great Burgundy.”
Jay Miller, Wine Advocate,

“A personal encounter with these singular wines should be high on the to-do list of any wine lover— not just Pinotphile– who hasn’t yet had the experience.”
David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate

“I have to say I really admire the style of these wines that veers towards black rather than red fruit: mineral-driven and more detailed than many of their Oregon peers. They come highly recommended, especially at these prices.”

David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate
Happy to Offer

2013 Brittan Vineyards Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Basalt Block
$50 bottle
91 Points Wine Advocate “The 2013 Pinot Noir Basalt Block was picked at just 1.5-ton per acre from 26-27 September and on 3 October, matured for 12 months in 25% new French oak. It offers blackberry and bilberry on the nose, touches of crushed violet and later blackcurrant pastilles emerging. The palate has a sharp seam of acidity, very minerally and stony in style, masculine for a Pinot Noir with an almost saturnine finish that lingers long in the mouth. Saline and surly (in an attractive way), cellar this enigmatic Pinot Noir for a couple of years.” — Neal Martin

2013 Brittan Vineyards Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Gestalt Block
$62 bottle
93 Points Wine Advocate “The 2013 Pinot Noir Gestalt Block was picked on 25 September and matured for 12 months in 35% French oak. There is plenty of damp moss/sous-bois infusing the black fruit here - wonderful definition and focus, an appealing herbal edge emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannin, well-judged acidity, grippy in the mouth with a briny finish that evokes images of a windswept wintry sea. What a sophisticated and compelling Pinot Noir, a sensorial delight, but at the same time intellectual. This comes highly recommended.”
— Neal Martin
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