La Colina Vineyard Pinot Noir

Fact sheet

Type

Red

Grape

Pinot Noir

Country

United States

Region

Dundee Hills · Willamette Valley

Appellation

Dundee Hills

Body

medium

Acidity

medium

Tannin

medium

Sweetness

dry

Rated vintages

• 201388 pts

  Dry and spare, this offers stem and herb flavors ahead of a tight core of raspberry fruit. A Pommard and Dijon 114 clone mix, it spent 19 months in 27% new French oak. It seems to need another year or two of bottle age to come together.

• 201188 pts

  Cherries and chocolate highlight this medium-weight wine. The fruit is framed tightly with herbal tannins, and the balance is good throughout. The finish turns astringent and slightly chalky.

• 201086 pts

  This has a hard shell keeping it closed down, despite hours of airing. Cranberry fruit with a hint of mineral seems to quickly hit a wall and stop short. More bottle age may help to open it up a bit.

• 200987 pts

  Pretty raspberry fruit scents and flavors dominate, and in the mouth there is a sense of grainy sugars. It has good fruit and ripeness, but still seems a little disjointed. Perhaps more time in the bottle will help sort it out.

• 200887 pts

  This is a sharp, tart Pinot, scented with pine needles and showing wild strawberry fruit flavors and plenty of sharp acidity. In the mouth the fruit also reveals a cherry candy core, pretty but brief, and quickly winds down through a citrusy finish.

• 200690 pts

  This single vineyard in the Dundee Hills recalls Oregon Pinots from days gone by. It's not too big, not too oaky, plenty ripe and delivers spicy berry fruit along with earthier streaks of leaf, herb, baking spices and a whiff of cinnamon. Stiff acids and earthy tannins betray it…

• 200590 pts

  The juice is sharp and spicy, with some baking spice and cinnamon livening up the back of the palate. The fruit flavors suggest boysenberry and blackberry, set up against stiff acids and earthy tannins. Young and still a little rough around the edges, this distinctive bottling s…