Adelsheim Boulder Bluff Vineyard Pinot Noir 2019
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This is an enticing view of Boulder Bluff, replete with layered aromas of cinnamon bark, forest floor, fresh raspberries, and a breath of delicately perfumed flowers. In the mouth it is deft and structured, with a high-tension wire threaded through the palate. The tannins frame the wine and provide just enough texture to keep things interesting. This is the rare wine that will age beautifully yet also tastes exceptional today.’
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Jeb Dunnuck
Taking on a darker profile, the 2019 Pinot Noir Boulder Bluff Vineyard is entirely from estate fruit from vines planted in the early 2000s on a 10-acre property. Expressive with aromas of rocky earth, raspberry liqueur, darker cherries, and licorice, the wine is medium to full-bodied and offers an elegant feel, although it has a bit more broadness than the Ribbon Springs.
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Wine Enthusiast
So fresh, so pretty, so classically Willamette Valley. It begins with the fresh saline note on the nose, similar to the lining of a fresh-shucked oyster. Then add aromas and flavors of bright red cherries, lilac and a trace of lemony citrus. Great acidity and velvety tannins.
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Wine & Spirits
Showing off the dark flavor spectrum of the vast Chehalem AVA, this is set on volcanic soils on a south-facing slope, planted in 2003. It’s dark with notes of cinnamon and carob, plum and currant. Gentle for now, a touch broad, this may gain definition in the cellar.
Established in 1971, Adelsheim is a family-owned and operated winery with estate vineyards located in Oregon's northern Willamette Valley. Over the past 41 years, the Adelsheim Vineyard estate has grown to include twelve exception vineyard sites throughout the Valley, totaling 237 acres. Company co-founder, David Adelsheim, has done work throughout the years to benefit both the Oregon and American wine industries: grape and wine research, wine labeling, industry education, and promotion. He is recognized for his "outstanding service" to the industry and has played a vital role in building the Oregon wine industry and establishing its reputation worldwide. Today, he leads a current generation of passionate staff devoted to leading the industry in crafting consistently transcendent wines.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
The Chehalem Mountains is a northwest-southeast span of several distinct mountains, ridges and peaks in the northern part of the Willamette Valley. Of all of Willamette Valley's smaller AVAs, it is closest to the city of Portland. Its highest summit, Bald Peak at an elevation of 1,633 feet, serves to generate cooler air for the rest of the AVA and its hillside vineyards. The region covers 70,000 acres but only 1,600 acres are planted to vines; soils of the Chehalem Mountains are a mix of basalt, ocean sediment and loess.