The Eyrie Vineyards 'Estate' Pinot Noir 2019
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- TASTING NOTE: "Translucent ruby-red. Mineral tinged black raspberry, cherry and floral scents are complemented by baking spice and succulent herb flourishes. Bright and energetic on the palate, offering sharply defined red and blue fruit, lavender and spicecake flavors braced by a spine of smokey minerality. Closes very long and precise, displaying lingering red fruit and floral qualities and well judged, even tannins." 93 POINTS - JOSH RAYNOLDS, VINOUS
- ABOUT THE WINE: The Estate blend combines Pinot from Eyrie’s 5 certified-organic estate vineyards. Picked by hand, grapes are destemmed and put into a variety of fermenters, from small one-ton bins to a 5 ton wooden cuve, to undergo native primary fermentation. Barrels are mostly neutral—for this vintage, only 8% were new. Having undergone native malolactic fermentation and aged for almost 2 years, the 2019 Pinot noir was blended after 22 months, racked once without filtration, and then bottled and sealed under Diam cork.
- ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Eyrie founder David Lett was convinced that the climate of the Willamette Valley was potentially perfect for growing Pinot Noir. At the tender age of 24, with a degree in viticulture, another in philosophy, and eight months of intensive research in European wine regions behind him, David Lett headed for Oregon. He left California with little more than 3000 grape cuttings and a firm conviction that Oregon’s Willamette Valley would be the best home for Pinot noir and Chardonnay outside of Burgundy. On February 22 1965, David established the modern era of winegrowing in the Willamette Valley when he planted his first vines. David was soon joined by his new wife Diana, and together they planted and expanded their estate on a former orchard in the Dundee Hills. Their plantings focused on the first Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in the Willamette Valley, but also the first Pinot Gris commercially planted outside of Europe, and other cool climate varieties. In hindsight the Letts' choices were remarkable. Today the Dundee Hills are the Willamette Valley’s most densely-planted, highest-value grape ground, and Pinot noir is Oregon’s leading variety. The Eyrie Vineyards have been managed with organic principals since the outset and winemaking follows the same gentle approach; natural fermentations, minimal racking, extended lees contact, complete and spontaneous malolactic fermentation, no fining, and minimal filtration. David's son Jason took over winemaking duties in 2005.
- COUNTRY: USA
- REGION: Willamette Valley, Oregon
- VARIETAL: Pinot Noir
- WINE STYLE: Red Wine
- WINEMAKER: Jason Lett
- CLASSIFICATION: Minimal Intervention, Organic Farming, Vegan
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 14%
- SIZE: 750ml
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