Description
"We try to use this wine as our looking glass to figure out what is yet to come from all of the other HF and EW wines that are still in barrel. 2022 was a cool vintage delayed by a Spring frost. By the time the grapes had ripened we were in the last days of September and heading into our first October start in years. Along with Le Puits Sec and J, this is the wine I’m most proud to offer: a truly artisanal, hands-off pinot noir made the same way as our single-vineyard wines at a most reasonable price. Focused, floral aromatics foreground red apple, marionberry, sour cherry and spice on the nose moving to riper plum and savory mouth-filing fruit with juicy acid and succulance on the finish." - Producer Notes
"The 2022 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley displays a beautiful lightness of being, rising up from the glass with a woodland-inspired bouquet as nuances of sage and flowery undergrowth come together with crushed cherries and spice. It’s soft-textured yet lifted in feel, with crisp red fruits and an herbal tinge that roots the experience in the earth. Saline mineral tones and grippy tannins resonate under an air of lavender, yet in the end, this is a wine of freshness. Beautiful. It was refined in all neutral French oak." - 92 Points, Eric Guido, Vinous
