2017 Eola-Amity Hills Pinot Noir

$50.00

Our Eola-Amity Hills Pinot Noir comes from two small family farms, each less than 2 acres and both at nearly 700 feet in elevation. After several seasons working with the Wheelers and Hudsons, and the opportunity to learn about their sites, the fruit they produce and their families, we grow more enamored with their uniqueness each vintage, and love lacing them together as they combine to form a substantive and articulate expression of the Eola-Amity Hills.

TASTING NOTES: Energy and Tang, a cherry edged umami, calder-like balance
The 2017 Eola-Amity Pinot Noir opens with aromas of red and blue berries, brown baking spices, honeycomb, blood orange, and perfumed flower shop. The palate is energetic and vibrant with a cool expanse that is both generous and tensile. Flavors are of cherries and chocolate, marzipan, hazelnut, stone fruit, and mace with a hint of Ancho chili and salty rock crystal. Tannins are fine-grained and satiny, contained like a tight weave fabric, showing plushness and poise and balancing like an Alexander Calder mobile.

FINISHED CHEMISTRY:
14.1% alc, 5.8g/L TA, 3.47 pH

AGING:
10 months in 28% new French oak