2022 Oregon Wine

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

Organic/Bio Lower ABV 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

One of California's top Pinot houses reaches up to Oregon's Zena Crown vineyard for a Warrior Princess of a wine! Jeb Dunnuck captures it nicely in the 95 point rave, it’s a youthful ruby hue and is floral and ripe... Read More

Excellent value in right down the middle Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. The whole valley is represented here, with fruit from Cascade Foothills, Corvallis, Carlton, Amity and Laurelwood, all aged in old oak. Shows more fresh, crisp,... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV Within the foothills of the Coastal Range, Hylands was planted in the early 1970s to Charles Coury's suitcase clones and remains dense in Coury Clone Pinot today. This is simply beautiful Pinot Noir,... Read More

Owned by Archery Summit, Arcus is on Worden Hill Rd in the Dundee Hills near Maresh, Powell Hill, Weber, Clos Electrique and Le Pavillon. For years the vineyard name was kept off the label at the owners' request, so the sourcing... Read More

Pretty much the essence of Dundee Hills Pinot, especially in a great vintage for Pinot on these Jory volcanic clay soils. Audrey Frick in JebDunnuck.com says in the 96 point rave, The 2022 Pinot Noir Balcombe Vineyard is a bright... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV Smokin’ good Willamette Pinot Noir from a vineyard Dick Erath planted on marine sedimentary soils way back in 1968. Back then, most of the plant material available were Pinot Clones successful in California,... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV Always one of the best values in Willamette Valley Pinot, the Estate Old Vine bottling benefits in 2022 from frost damage that dropped yields to a ton per acre and a decision to put all of the best blocks... Read More

Patricia Green Cellars makes more wine from this premier Willamette Valley vineyard than anyone else. As Jim Anderson explains, Because we take a lot by both volume and diversity of blocks and clones and because we choose to bottle... Read More

One of Doug's favorite Patricia Green Pinots from a unique, steeply sloped, west-facing site that gives Pommard on volcanic soil at the top, Dijon 115 on marine sediments lower and a tiny bit of Mariafeld Clone from the transition... Read More

For me, volcanic soil Pinot is always a unique blend of dark red fruit - raspberry, cherry - with dark, dusky, notes of smoke and toasted spice. In 2022 you find all of that but also a bigger sense of freshness and verve to play... Read More

Organic/Bio Lower ABV I thought the 2021 X Novo the best Willamette Valley Chardonnay I'd ever tasted - then I tried this. Burgundian is overused in talking about non-Burgundy Chardonnay, so we'll say Meursault-ian instead.... 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

Organic/Bio Lower ABV This high-altitude, volcanic soil, Eola Hills vineyard is fast developing into one of the most exciting sites in the Valley. Walter Scott delivers their typical Burgundian take on Oregon Pinot here, emphasizing... 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