Domaine Drouhin, Pinot Noir, Dundee Hills, Oregon, 2018
$55.00
Domaine Drouhin, Pinot Noir, Dundee Hills, Oregon, 2018
$55.00
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“Medium ruby-purple, the 2018 Pinot Noir Dundee Hills opens with savory notions of leather, graphite and tobacco with a core of red and blue berry fruits. The palate is medium-bodied with concentrated, incredibly spicy flavor layers, firm and super fresh, and it finishes very long and flavorful. Give it another 2-3 years in bottle.”-94+WA, 2020-2027
Poised atop the Dundee Hills, with gentle slopes that capture the breezes and sunshine, this 235-acre estate overlooking the Willamette Valley produces some of the finest Pinot Noir and Chardonnay fruit in the world.
Robert Drouhin’s vision of an Oregon estate winery that could rival the great vineyards of Burgundy has been realized at DDO. From what began as test plantings of cloned Pinot Noir rootstock, Domaine Drouhin now encompasses 124 acres of hillside vineyards. Interspersed with the Pinot Noir vines are 11 acres of Chardonnay, planted at various elevations and, like in Burgundy, planted right alongside rows of Pinot Noir.
Everything planted at DDO is unique to the estate. They also have two large blocks of rootstock planted on the estate, so that they can graft the cuttings onto rootstock that they have grown themselves. They grow and plant rootstocks that they have learned are well suited to the specifics of the vineyard sites in terms of site elevation, soil depth, and moisture-holding capacity. In this way they can maintain the highest level of quality control over our plant material.
The densely planted vines are farmed sustainably, L.I.V.E. certified, and tended to by hand when leaves and fruit are thinned; harvesting is also done entirely by hand.
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