Organic/Bio While Stephen Hagen and his team are fine winemakers, the real story here is winegrowing. Stephen’s unique “grazing based viticulture” replaces herbicides, mowing, plowing and fertilizers with something... Read More
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If you think this is impressive right now (and it is!), just wait until you give it some time in decanter or a year or two in cellar. Plenty of succulent fruit but also amazing old-vine intensity from a large... Read More
Organic/Bio Always one of Oregon's finest, the 2022 Casteel Pinot is also remarkably open, delicious and ready to enjoy. As Wine Advocate says in the 96 point rave, intoxicating scents of pomegranate liqueur, blackberry jam,... Read More
Lower ABV From their vines at the west end of the Chehalem Mountains, Elk Cove creates Pinot Gris that reachest towards white Burgundy levels of complexity. There's plenty of ripe pear and stone fruit on the nose and palate,... Read More
Pat and Joe Campbell planted this site in 1985 from Estate Vyd cuttings and named it for the favorite Puccini opera of the folks who sold them the land. Silky and lush are always apt descriptors for La Boheme Pinot Noir's... Read More
Having sold his family architecture/construction firm in 2005, Martin Doerschlag took a few years off to wander as a flaneur. Taking inspiration from 19th century French artist Charles Baudelaire, he sought to move slowly, immerse... Read More
Not sure whether this is rose or orange wine, but it's wild and wildly delicious! The Early Muscat, Riesling and Petit Blanc were pressed as whole clusters very slowly, extracting a touch of color. The Pinot Gris was destemmed,... Read More
As winemaker Jim Anderson writes, This bottling allows us to be incredibly detailed about the barrels we select for our vineyard designated wines, so they true expressions of the site on a year in and year out basis. The Willamette... Read More
Considerably more than the “Bourgogne Rouge” Mark Vlossak had in mind when he first created this wine! In 2022 it’s a blend of fruit from Shea, Temperance Hill and Freedom Hill (Willamette Valley elite!) with... Read More
Lower ABV I’d tell you this is better than Aubert de Villaine Bouzeron in a great vintage…but who knew the owner of Romanee-Conti makes Aligote on the side? Or knew one of Oregon’s premier Chardonnay/Pinot estates... Read More
With lots from Justice, Koosah, Sojeau, Temperance Hill, Witness Tree, Bracken and X Novo vineyards, 5% whole clusters and 30% new oak, the 2022 Cuvee Ruth is at once creamy and lithe, deep and vibrant. Mostly it’s just... Read More
Just 340 cases made and 7 for the whole state of Virginia – not enough of what just may be the finest Willamette Valley Pinot Noir I’ve ever tasted. The vineyard formerly known as “Sojourner” sits in the... Read More
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