Pinot Noir – Willamette Valley

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Pinot Noir – Willamette Valley

$1.00

Country USA
Region Oregon
Producer Westrey
Size

750mL

Style Red
Practices Organic
Grapes Pinot Noir
Other Features Vegan, Indigenous yeasts, Natural, Unfiltered, Unfined

2014 provided the Willamette Valley with a long, warm growing season and ample ripeness. With the meticulous attention to picking dates required by a warmer vintage, this wine displays plenty of fruit, while still being framed in a structure of balanced acidity and alcohol. The vineyard sources for the 2014 include 7% from Ingram Lane, 17% Abbey Ridge, with the balance coming from Westrey’s Oracle Vineyard. The wine has a weighty flavor spectrum of wild raspberry, red currant and sweet spice. Fruit aromas are complemented by notes of sweet clove spice and the slightest hint of vanilla oak. On the palate the wine is open and opulent, with loads of pure Pinot fruit, leading into a rich mid-palate and a balanced finish with a hint of well-integrated tannin. Aging and a complete indigenous malolactic fermentation took place in 100% French oak, with 15% new and 20% one-year-old barrels. The wine was bottled in September of 2015 after 11 months in barrel without fining or filtration.  13.4% alcohol. 990 cases produced.

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About the Producer

Westrey Wine Company was founded in 1993 by co-winemakers Amy Wesselman and David Autrey, along with David’s father, Robert Autrey, in Oregon’s burgeoning Willamette Valley. While getting Westrey off the ground, Amy was the General Manager and Assistant Winemaker for David Lett at the Eyrie Vineyards and then the Executive Director at the International Pinot Noir Celebration, a position to which she has recently returned. Amy and David focus on crafting elegant Pinot Noir wines, fruit-driven "Burgundian"-style Chardonnay and crisp, refreshing Pinot Gris. The wines are designed to be balanced and ageworthy, always complementing and enlivening the food with which they are served.

Sourcing fruit both from the vineyards of long-time and well respected friends in the Willamette Valley and from their own Oracle vineyard in the Dundee Hills AVA, Amy and David use these various puzzle pieces of fruit to build complexity into their wines. Vineyard-designated bottlings are designed to showcase the connection between the individual farms where the grapes are grown and the final personality of the wine.

Farming practices: Amy and David strive to grow their grapes and make their wines using a sustainable approach. The vineyard is LIVE Certified, a credential that is earned by taking into account not only organic approaches to farming but also by considering the inputs and outputs of the farm as a whole. Through their commitment to the !Salud! program Amy and David help to provide healthcare to vineyard workers who are otherwise uninsurable. The winery currently produces approximately 4,000 to 5,000 cases annually.
MATT KRAMER: “Westrey is an exemplar of Oregon pinot noir perfectionism. Few, if any, Oregon wineries exceed Westrey in pinot noir quality, even when their prices are well in excess of anything Westrey asks.”

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