Cristom Pinot Noir Jessie Vineyard 2012 750ml (750ml)

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Producer	Cristom
Country	United States
Region	Oregon
Varietal	Pinot Noir
Vintage	2012
Sku	ORG-RD52
Size	750ml

 

Christopher Deas, Italian Wine Merchants: “In tasting a decade of cellar releases with winemaker Daniel Estrin and the Cristom team, it was the releases of the Jessie Vineyard and Louise Vineyard from the ripe vintage of 2012 that perhaps stood out most. Opposites in many ways, we appreciated the firmer and more coiled restraint of the Louise, but it was the more expressive Jessie that was firing on all cylinders. The wine is explosive out of the gate and finds its sweet spot with more than two hours of aeration. There is a seductive silky texture here that is hard to deny, and you can expect to find nuances of wild berries, mulberries, plum, rhubarb, tomato leaf, herbs, spice, salini

While David Lett of Eyrie Vineyards is well-regarded as the patriarch of the Oregon wine movement, there were plenty of contributing fathers, and certainly one would be Steve Doerner of Cristom. For a quarter of a century, Steve and Cristom have been producing America’s finest Pinot Noirs. And while Cristom has developed a dedicated following for its prized limited production crus from the steepest slopes of the Eola-Amity Hills region that are the absolute showstoppers; discovering this winery and what Oregon Pinot is all about does begin with the 2019 Cristo