Winemaker Notes
The 2023 Estate Vineyard Pinot Noir is perhaps a wine that is so stylistically out of its price point classification it seems awkward. Unlike the Chehalem Mountain and Freedom Hill Vineyard bottlings that show and shine ways that one would expect of single vineyard Oregon Pinot Noirs priced at this level, the Estate bottling is simply more…regal? This has the infrastructure of all our block designated Estate Vineyard wines. The fruit mixes between blacker berries and swirling deeply red fruits but all that sits upon a well of tannins that is quite deep, certainly deeper than one would expect for a larger bottling priced in this manner. So, that being said, the question to you reading this is whether you want a wine that is priced well below its pedigree, stature and winemaking capacity, or don’t you? If this wine is simply too much for you, we understand, but do not sympathize.