Wines Reviewed by Senior Editor and Wine Critic Aubrey Frick
Released August 7, 2024
2023 Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Rating: 94+
Maturity: 2024-2034
Review: Displaying a bright, youthful yellow hue in the glass, the 2023 Chardonnay Willamette Valley was aged in a mix of two-thirds stainless and the rest French oak. It has a lovely nose of flinty wet stone, lemon oils, poached apple, delicate sweet spice, and brothy, salty earth. It has a lovely, juicy feel on the palate, with a refined and elegant, supple, silky texture, as well as a beautifully long finish. Offering real depth and complexity without being heavy, it’s going to drink well over the next 10 years. Avery impressive Chardonnay from Ken, it’s showing a lot of promise.
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2023 Freedom Hill Vineyard Pinot Blanc
Rating: 93
Maturity: 2024-2034
Review: From a small one-acre plot that’s a special spot for Pinot Blanc, the 2023 Pinot Blanc Freedom Hill Vineyard pours a bright straw/yellow hue and offers a lot of depth on the nose, with ripe and crystalline aromas of preserved citrus, almond, salty earth, beeswax, and delicate spice. The palate is savory and takes on lovely complexity, with fantastic richness and a weightless feel through its long finish, with notes of yellow flowers and delicate salty earth throughout. It’s highly appealing now but is going to age slowly over the coming 10 years.
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2022 Canary Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir
Rating: 96
Maturity: After 2024
Review: The single vineyard 2022 Pinot Noir Canary Hill Vineyard really takes things up a notch, showing off aromas of licorice candies, Amarena cherries, pine needles, and peppery spice. It has outstanding purity and intensity on the palate, with weightless feel and is just a stunning offering, with a lot of clarity and depth as well as ripe, defined tannins and a seamless feel. It has a fantastic, mouthwatering, salty finish that lasts on the palate and undertones of fresh violets come through as well. This is a real beauty now, but it’s going to age with ease.
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2022 Eola-Amity Hills AVA Series Pinot Noir
Rating: 95
Maturity: 2025-2037
Review: From the volcanic soils Eola-Amity Hills, the 2022 Pinot Noir Eola-Amity Hills is a jewed ruby/magenta color and is expressive in the glass, with notes of raspberry preserve, crushed wildflowers, licorice, and sweet herbs, as well as a sanguine lift with great, ripe purity. Elegant and refined, it reveals fine, ripe tannins, a seamless feel, and more mouthwatering finish.
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2022 Freedom Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir
Rating: 96
Maturity: 2025-2040
Review: The 2022 Pinot Noir Freedom Hill Vineyard lifts with an enveloping perfume and spiced profile with notes of wild black raspberries, toasted incense, crushed gravelly stones, crushed pine needles, and spicy earth. Savory on the palate, with rich structure, a broader shouldered, expansive feel, and a hint of dark stones, it’s long on the palate, with notes of black tea and toasty spice on the finish. Give it another year or two and drink
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2022 Hirschy Vineyard Pinot Blanc
Rating: 96+
Maturity: 2024-2044
Review: The 2022 Pinot Noir Hirschy Vineyard is a deep, reflective ruby red color and is lifted with notes of thin mints, black cherries, wild herbs, and dark, stony earth. Medium to full-bodied, it’s very structured and savory throughout the palate, with salty, briny earth. It’s okay to let this one sit around a few years, since it’s going to soften and build in complexity and will hold on over the coming 20 years.
Release Date: September 1, 2024
2022 Shea Vineyard Pinot Noir
Rating: 97
Maturity: 2026-2046
Review: The 2022 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard pours a bright ruby color and is focused and peppery with lifted spice and notes of bright red cherries, pie spices, vibrant pressed roses, and fresh piney herbs. It’s linear and focused on the palate, with finely coiled tannins, a ripe feel, and an even and mouthwatering spine of acidity. Long a persistent, it has more nervous energy, with savory undertones, and is a lovely wine all the way through. It’s going to benefit from at least another year of cellaring.
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2022 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
Rating: 93
Maturity: 2024-2031
Review: A bright ruby color, the 2022 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley is very pretty on the nose, with notes of ripe raspberries, crushed wildflowers, sweet spices, and forest earth. Approachable, pure, and elegant, it has a delicate earthy undertone on the finish but a very pure, clean feel. It’s a great lens into the wines of this estate with its lovely and elegant feel. A fantastic value and a darn tasty wine, there’s no need to race to open it. It’s going to drink well over the coming 5-7 years.
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2022 Yamhill-Carlton AVA Series Pinot Noir
Rating: 95+
Maturity: 2025-2037
Review:An old Marine ocean bed dominates the terrain of Yamhill-Carlton, and the jeweled ruby-colored 2022 Pinot Noir Yamhill-Carlton offers a more savory side, with generous aromas of sea spray and a light umami feel, along with notes of black raspberries, grenadine, and mossy earth. Medium to full-bodied, it has a chiseled structure and a ripe feel, with hints of tea leaf and crushed stony earth.
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