2014 Big Table Farm Willamette Valley Pinot Noir $48 bottle
The collaborative effort of Brian Marcy and Clare Carver who grow and produce what they love to eat and drink.
Winemaker Brian’s multi-year relationship with Helen Turley and Associates (Blankiet, Marcassin) influenced his winemaking style: it is big, full bodied, yet retaining layered fruit and mineral flavors.
This wine strikes a perfect balance with red grapefruit and orange zest aromatics supporting the generous cherry and red currant flavors. Drinking perfect and ready to satisfy. Unfined and unfiltered.
2015 Montinore Estates Willamette Valley Pinot Noir $22 bottle
You will not find a better quality Oregon Pinot Noir that gives you estate fruit, biodynamic farming, and darling reputation in this price range than Montinore Vineyards in Willamette Valley.
The bold palate is ripe with strawberries, red cherries, black plums, pomegranate, bittersweet chocolate and pie spice which is balanced beautifully by bright acid, all within well-structured tannins.
Year in and year out, these consistently made wines offer pure joy. They are fresh and lively with excellent acidity.
2015 Kelley Fox Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Mirabai $48 bottle
Biodynamic Farming from the Ultimate Earth Goddess!
“The color is a shining, brilliant, transparent light red. The nose is full of sun-warmed Hood strawberries and a little spice, but not the sun of a hot summer day, but one of a late spring day, with both a welcome sunshine from above and a fresh coolness like the dew of a spring morning not yet warmed. There are soft minerals in this lithe, high energy, aerial Pinot, reminding me of hummingbirds, but with a certain trickiness of Tinkerbell. The vines are old and know themselves: this Mirabai has a twinkle in its eye with a seriousness that doesn’t need to be obvious.” Winemaker Notes
2015 Division Pinot Noir Un Willamette Valley $35 bottle
Always a house favorite. Vibrant freshness, intense minerality and dense fruit that lends itself to strawberry and raspberry tones. 750 cases made. Delicious!
2015 Evening Land Seven Springs Estate Gamay $45 bottle
Tiny production from Amity Hills. “We are proud to farm some of the oldest Gamay plantings in North America. Our biodynamically farmed Gamay Noir vines grow at the base of our vineyard, roughly 350 feet in elevation. We ferment our Gamay in the traditional method of Beaujolais vignerons by leaving the grapes on their stems and sealing the fruit in a concrete tank. Our Gamay undergoes whole cluster, carbonic fermentation before being racked to neutral French oak barrels. We raise the wine for a short 10 months before bottling the wine without fining or filtering.” — Winery
2015 Ilahe Estate Pinot Noir Willamette Valley $35 bottle
Certified Organic, Salmon Safe, Horse Powered
Aromas of blueberry, red fruits, licorice fern, with light char and vanilla clove. The perceivable fruit develops into a round mid-palate, smooth tannins, and notes of rose petal. This pinot is well balanced, clarified by racking (no fining or filtering), maintaining a layering mouth feel and acidity. The finish lingers with elegant persistence.
