2017 Sunny Mountain Pinot Noir
This wine is no longer available, but the 2018 Sunny Mountain Pinot Noir is!
Lighter in color with good tannin structure and a long finish. This Pinot Noir is incredibly complex, laced with notes of herbs, spices and dark red fruits.
Comprised of pinot noir grapes from Sunny Mountain vineyard located in the Willamette Valley. The vines were planted in 2005 in marine sedimentary-bellpine and volcanic basalt-ritner soil.
This pinot noir is comprised of 3 clones: 23 (Mariafeld), Pommard, and 115.
Only 200 cases produced!
Flavor Notes
Limpid ruby-red. A highly perfumed bouquet features fresh red and blue fruit, floral and exotic spice scents, and a hint of cola builds with air. Juicy and energetic on the palate, offering appealingly sweet black raspberry, cherry and boysenberry flavors energized by a spicy flourish and an emerging mineral quality. Finishes very long and precise, with well-judged tannins and resonating florality.
Elegant and expressively fruit-forward with notes of red cherry, red currant, neroli oil and fennel.
Sommelier
Beef Bourguignon with fork tender vegetables, cooked with beef, wine, fresh thyme, bayleaf, rosemary and garlic would be the perfect accompaniment with this Pinot.
Chef
The only Pinot Noir site we bottle alone planted on marine sedimentary soils, this vintage is a more delicate expression of a warm and very dry site that tends to have lots of power. This vintage, however, showcases more subtlety and restraint with notes of dragon plum and fresh fennel, but also captures the darker and brooding personality of the vineyard.
Assistant Winemaker
Winemaking Notes
A wet, cool spring delayed flowering until late June, which set the stage for a later harvest than the previous three vintages.
Hot, dry conditions prevailed through the summer, yielding heat spikes in August. With a larger than normal fruit set, the grapes enjoyed long hang time leading up to harvest. Conditions cooled and brought in scattered rains with the harvest, which began at Brooks on the 28th of September and ran through November 1st, almost returning to normal average harvest dates in the Willamette Valley.
The wines from the vintage show fresh fruit flavors and lively acidity. In all, it will be remembered as a classic vintage in Oregon!
- Type
- Red
- Varietal
- Pinot Noir
- Region
- Oregon
- Appellation
- Willamette Valley
- Vintage
- 2017
- Vineyards
- Sunny Mountain
- Filtration
- Cross-Flow
- Case production
- 200
- Aging
- 18 Months
- Crush format
- Hand Sorted and 100% Destemmed
- Bottling date
- 2019-05-03
- Harvest date
- 2017-10-03
- Vessel
- French Oak Barrels
- Alcohol percentage
- 13.8
- Ph
- 3.8
- Acid
- 5.6 g/L
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