Our weekend wine tastings are on hiatus, but we will still be featuring select wines for discount! Scroll down to explore tasting notes, and purchase any of the wines featured this weekend for 10% off retail pricing.
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Harper Voit Surlie Pinot Blanc 2019
Origin: Oregon
Retail: $26.95 | Sale: $24.25
As a fifteen-year veteran of the Oregon wine industry, winemaker Drew Voit is intimately familiar with exceptional vineyard sites. While serving as the Associate Winemaker at Domaine Serene Winery, and then as Winemaker for Shea Wine Cellars, he worked with some of the best vineyards in the Willamette Valley. This Pinot Bland is barrel fermented and left on the lees prior to bottling. Crisp green apple, lemon wafer and a hint of butter bring out well-rounded flavors that carry a hint of residual sugar. It's dry but not tart, and would be an excellent wine for any chardonnay lover.
Pinot Blanc
J.K. Carriere Glass White Pinot Noir 2020
Origin: Oregon
Retail: $31.95 | Sale: $28.75
This single vineyard designate from our own St. Dolores Estate near the top of the Chehalem Mountains AVAis aged using lees addition and incorporating Champagne methodologies from 100 years ago to strip color and broaden an earthy mid-palate, similar to a rosé Champagne from that era, without the bubbles. The nose presents as lime, strawberries and tonic. On the palate it’s ripe lemon and sweet tangerine with a touch of grapefruit. The racy acidity keeps the fruit in balance and the finish lasting forever.
Pinot Noir
Martinelli Bella Vigna Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2018
Origin: California
Retail: $49.95 | Sale: $44.95
The Martinelli Family has been farming their estate vineyards for over 135 years, continuing their rich history and making them 6th generation wine growers and farmers. The Bella Vigna Pinot Noir is curated from all of our estate vineyards in the Sonoma Coast appellation. Inviting aromas of blueberry, black cherry and sweet oak welcome you into the glass. Deep flavors of boysenberry and clove last into the long and balanced finish.
Pinot Noir
Patricia Green Cellars Lia's Vineyard Pinot Noir 2018
Origin: Oregon
Retail: $39.95 | Sale: $35.95
Lia’s Vineyard is about the unusual (in Oregon) combination of soil types due to the change in elevation that the vineyard has over a relatively small amount of overall acreage. This bottling marks the 9th vintage we have received fruit from this vineyard although they have only bottled this individually for the past 7 vintages. This elegant Pinot skates lightly along a red fruit spectrum from strawberry to raspberry with supporting streaks of citrus. This wine is quite integrated at a very young age which is surprising given the dispirit clones, vine ages, elevations and soil types. Lia’s has earned its way up the ladder of their single vineyard wines and is now one of the prettiest and easy to like wines they produce.
Pinot Noir
Bethel Heights Estate Vineyard 2018
Origin: Oregon
Retail: $38.95 | Sale: $35.05
Oregon's Eola-Amity Hills sub-appellation is home to some of the finest vineyards in the Willamette Valley, including Bethel Heights's own estate. The well-drained volcanic soils that span the 16-mile hill chain is subjected to what is called the Van Duzer effect here, where a break in the mountains funnels cool air in from the Pacific, allowing for slow, even ripening of the fruit here. This has a sultry nose with violet and dark-cherry aromas, as well as forest-wood, and spicy, earthy notes. The palate has a rich delivery of super pure dark cherries and such assertive, driving, older-vine tannins.
Pinot Noir