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Year's Best US Pinot Noirs
band and wife team making small lots
of unusual reds and whites from Oregon
sources. They're enamored of high-elevation pinot, and that is how this wine reads,
with a scent that's cool and savory, hints of
turf, dried beef and plum. But that's just the
beginning. Over four days this wine grows
into an earthbound vessel of umami flavors,
buoyed by brisk acids and serving gorgeous,
perfectly ripe plum fruit, lively and lean, full
of boundless energy and lift. It's an exciting
wine with loads of inner tension, and the
stuffing to age. -P.J.C. (330 cases) §
521486

94 | Walter Scott

$55

2018 Eola-Amity Hills X Novo Vineyard
Pinot Noir ^ This is the first vintage that Walter Scott purchased pinot noir grapes from X
Novo. Farmed by Craig Williams, the pinot
block contains 15 clones. In combination,
they produced a lean, composed red, its
brambly cherry flavors limned with tobacco
leaf and a whisper of oak. This is destined to
be long-lived and complex at every stage of
its life. -P.J.C. (W&S 10/20; 175 cases) §
000000 (CK)

93 | 00 Wines

$175

2018 Eola-Amity Hills Richard Hermann
Cuvée Pinot Noir ^ Exotic scents of balsamic
spice and dark plum suggest this will be a rich
wine, and its first impression is just that. But
after a day open, then two days, it becomes
more limpid, the flavors stretched like elastic
into a finer expression, the extract settled, the
texture sleek. It's still flash, but stylish; it has
the stamina to age well. § -P.J.C.
522894

93 | Averaen

$62

2018 Eola-Amity Hills Cattrall Brothers
Vineyard Pinot Noir ^ Brian Marcy and Clare
Carver use the high elevation of this site to
ripen expressive fruit with minimal alcohol
(12.1%, in this case). This wine is lean and
peppery with a raspberry burst of fruit. The
flavors are suave and slightly leathery, like a
lean Burgundy. It will benefit from some cellar time before pouring with something just
as savory, like roast salmon with mushrooms
and lentils. -P.J.C. (134 cases) §
522935

2018 Eola-Amity Hills Bjornson Vineyard
Pinot Noir ^ This wine's dark wild-berry aromas feel as if they are lined with wood smoke.
The wildness carries throughout the wine,
making it instantly appealing. The flavors
go the route of black cherry but it's the texture that will have you going for another sip,
a broad, saturated, satisfying mouthfeel that
feels rich and compelling down to the finish.
-P.J.C. (175 cases) §
523031

93 | Bryn Mawr Vineyards

$50

93 | Drouhin Oregon
Roserock

2017 Eola-Amity Hills Pelos Sandberg
Pinot Noir (Best Buy) ^ A 14-acre vineyard
planted in 2001, this site is beginning to show
some balance and depth in its fruit as the
vines mature. The wine starts off with tight
scents of cinnamon and black plum, opening with air, becoming spicy and savory,
with an almost balsamic richness and depth
to the flavors. It ends on an old-vine tanbark
savor, with gorgeous persistence. -P.J.C.
(540 cases) §
521476

$65

2018 Eola-Amity Hills Jeffrey's Block
Pinot Noir ^ From the first vines planted on
the Bryn Mawr property in the mid-90s, this
wine leads with scents of olive and smoke,
then a burst of dark red-cherry flavor. It has
a show-stopping richness on the palate-
broad, saturating fruit supported by a generous complement of oak. It's got the polish
and the structure to age gracefully. -P.J.C.
(100 cases) §
522989
2018 Eola-Amity Hills Zéphirine Pinot
Noir ^ A barrel selection of Roserock fruit, this
shows the classic polish of a DDO bottling,
burnished wood, cinnamon and cedar, the
strawberry fruit posh and tight. The texture
is suave, with a sturdy frame beneath fresh,
acid-driven red fruits. -P.J.C. (1,960 cases) §

$70

2018 Eola-Amity Hills Hope Well Pinot
Noir ^ This is Bergström's first vintage from
Mimi Casteel's Hope Well Vineyard. Her
meticulous farming is evident in the wine's
delicacy, the initial scents of capsicum and
smoke giving way to a lean, ethereal wildcherry fruit. Structurally, it's tight and
focused, with a firmness that seems to reflect
the shallow soils of the east side of the Eola
Hills. -P.J.C. (W&S 10/20; 310 cases) §
522913

521466

93 | Cristom

93 | Fullerton

$65

93 | iOTA Cellars

$42

93 | J. Christopher

$40

93 | Walter Scott

$65

93 | Walter Scott

$65

2017 Eola-Amity Hills Lumière Pinot
Noir (Best Buy) ^ This is structured and subdued, with scents of licorice root and dark
mulled strawberry giving way to muddled
black-cherry flavors. It's juicy yet lean, the
texture thickened by fruit-skin tannins and
balanced by a lively acid structure. This will
pair well with plank-roasted salmon. -P.J.C.
(W&S 10/20; 123 cases) §
521488
2018 Eola-Amity Hills Temperance Hill
Vineyard Pinot Noir ^ Walter Scott receives
some of the highest-elevation fruit on the
Temperance Hill property, a north-facing
slope with shallow soils that's a challenge to
farm. This 2018 is forthright, with a reductive scent of warm wool and cluster spice, a
note of wild strawberries peeking through
as it opens. It's reserved and pretty, the fruit
teased into view like pale sun on a spring day.
Built to age. -P.J.C. (W&S 10/20; 150 cases) §
521415

$35

2018 Eola-Amity Hills Flood Line Pinot
Noir (Best Buy) ^ This is the new Oregon
venture from the California team at Banshee wines. Tasted over three days, this wine
changed dramatically. Everything was on display when first poured, with dark oak and
sanguine notes, plum and minerals. But it
takes time for those elements to harmonize,
the wine coming into balance and focus, with
a tender mineral give to the tannins that feels
flexible and expressive. -P.J.C. (1,000 cases) §
520557

93 | Bergström

93 | Big Table Farm

$70

2018 Eola-Amity Hills Jessie Vineyard
Pinot Noir ^ Named for Paul Gerrie's grandmother, Jessie is an 11-acre vineyard that's
among the Willamette's steepest. In 2018,
the wine leads with a smoky, austere expression of those shallow soils, viewed through
a lens of cluster spice. But bright, warm
cherry flavor comes bursting through the
austere frame, mouthfilling and delicious.
This is still far from peak expression; cellar
it. -P.J.C. (W&S 10/20; 840 cases) §
523226

2018 Eola-Amity Hills Seven Springs
Vineyard Pinot Noir ^ Walter Scott gets a
few tons of chardonnay and pinot noir from
the Evening Land home vineyard, and makes
the most of it. While this wine starts out a bit
reduced and animale, with air, the leathery
notes fade to reveal a mouthwatering rush of
pomegranate and red-cherry flavor, driven
by an effusive acidity. It feels like it's some
time from peak expression. Cellar. -P.J.C.
(W&S 10/20; 275 cases) §
522928
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