El Pino Club "Funky Jory" Dundee Hills Pinot Noir 2022

WINERY NOTES:

The 2021 vintage will be remembered in the Willamette Valley for record setting heat and dry conditions. Mild rain during bloom reduced the yields to slightly below average, but the precipitation helped our vines tolerate the unusually hot and dry summer. Harvest began a few weeks earlier than average, with our first Pinot Noir coming from the Dundee Hills AVA. All the fruit for this wine comes from our estate vineyard in the Dundee Hills where our vines grow in – not surprisingly – red Jory soils. Rich in nutrients and high in clay content, this basalt-based volcanic soil produces Pinot Noirs with high acidity, softer tannings, and a red- fruit flavor profile. This wine opens with complex aromatics of black cherry, mulberry, sandalwood and a touch of baking spice from the sparing use of new French oak barrels. The finish is silky and long, typical of Dundee Hills Pinot Noir.

SOIL: Red Jory

CLONES: 115, Wadenswil and Pommard

AGING: 16 months in 20% new Sylvain, Rousseau & Ermitage French oak barrels 

ABV: 14.5%

OTHER: TA 5.0 g/L, pH 3.65