David Hill Estate Pinot Noir (Willamette Valley)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Red

Uva

Pinot Noir

País

United States

Região

Willamette Valley · Willamette Valley

Denominação

Willamette Valley

Corpo

medium

Acidez

medium

Tanino

medium

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201489 pts

  Aromas have a pleasing toastiness, built around pretty strawberry fruit. The mouthfeel is a bit granular, balanced and highlighted with flavors of cocoa and coffee. It offers a relatively good value in Willamette Valley Pinot Noir.

• 201289 pts

  Here's a bowl full of fresh purple berries, plums and cherries. It's forward, fruity and just substantial enough, with supporting tannins, to age for another half decade or so. Drink now through 2020.

• 201088 pts

  Edgy and herbal, the 2010 Reserve mixes cranberry fruit with Mediterranean herbs. There's a suggestion of black olives also, and the tangy tartness adds lift to the mouthfeel.

• 200985 pts

  This is the winery's budget offering. It shows modest varietal flavors, with a slight burned or roasted character.

• 200889 pts

  This is the most intractable of the winery's 2008 Pinot Noirs, holding back in the glass and showing plenty of grip and tannin. Tight and compact, with a distinctive black pepper scent, this wine needs more bottle age. With time, the score could certainly improve.

• 200687 pts

  This is a young, grapy wine, with primary scents of grapes accented with cola and tomato leaf. You taste grapes, berries, ginger and herb, with an interesting creamy streak of milk chocolate. It's a well-made wine with surprising complexity and length.

• 200587 pts

  This small production (200 cases) Pinot Noir is a mix of older and younger estate vines, a selection of lots given 22 months in 60 and 132 gallon French oak casks. It's still tasting quite young, sharp and chewy, with spicy fruit backed up against earthy tannins. Give it plenty…