Red
Corral Creek Vineyards Pinot Noir
Chehalem Mountains · Willamette Valley · United States
Fact sheet
- Type
- Red
- Grape
- Pinot Noir
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Chehalem Mountains · Willamette Valley
- Body
- medium
- Acidity
- medium
- Tannin
- medium
- Sweetness
- dry
Food pairing
duck · lamb · roast pork · sliced mushrooms · roast poultry · soft cheeses
Rated vintages
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201590 pts
This aromatic wine offers rich fruit and floral scents. It's tart and spicy on the palate, with bright red fruit. Although aged in 42% new and 33% one-year barrels, oak-derived flavors aren't evident. Still, it's a young wine pulling itself together.
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201489 pts
Light in color and in the fruit flavors that are front and center, this tastes of straightforward cranberry and raspberry. It's pleasant but on the simple side, and its tannins bring a touch of green flavors as it wraps up with a gentle suggestion of milk chocolate.
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201289 pts
Pretty milk chocolate wraps around fresh strawberry fruit in this estate-grown, single-vineyard selection. A gentle wine, it turns almost soft in the middle, finishing with delicate flavors of rose water.
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201188 pts
Light and forward, this pleasant, single vineyard selection opens with pretty raspberry and black cherry fruit and an impression of spritziness. The flavors suggest Campari, with light streaks of herb and anise.
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201088 pts
A toasty streak of espresso-flavored richness marks this single-vineyard offering. The fruit is ripe and clean, with a tart red-berry flavor at the core.
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200592 pts
A single-vineyard wine from Oregon can be a component rather than a complete wine, but here it is an absolute joy. Fragrant and complex, this offers pleasures for both nose and palate, with scents of leaf and spice and herb, leading into a surprisingly dense and textural blend o…
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199893 pts
Delightfully piercing and pungent, the brambly bouquet features a little oak-driven caramel to soften up the leather and smoke elements. The mouthfeel is big and cushy, and at first there’s lots of vanillin on the red-fruit palate. With breathing, it really opens up and comes to…