The Upper Terrace Pinot Noir

Young but delicious. Better with air.

2018 is special

I love Beaux Freres but this bottle was not what I had hoped. Uninteresting and that’s not the usual profile for Upper Terraces. It might have been either the wine is a little old or my taste buds. I’ll try again tomorrow☘️🇮🇪🍀

So a delicious willamette Pinot. Light earth and well balanced

2007. Open for business. Bing cherries and dirt. Funk yes this wine is yum!

Some funk at first. Blew off quickly. Opened to aromatics of sour cherries, anise, vanilla, lavender. Love the acid component from a wonderful cool vintage.

Gently taking me by the finger and leading me out behind the barn to make out under the stars. Acidity lasts like a first love, and just as confusingly romantic. I won't forget this wine.

Translucent ruby-red. Powerful red fruit liqueur, potpourri, incense and smoky mineral scents, along with hints of cola and exotic spices. Alluring sweet and animated on the palate, offering densely packed raspberry, boysenberry, spicecake, floral pastille flavors and a strong undercurrent of zesty minerality. Fine-grained tannins frame and shape a powerful, mineral-driven finish that lingers with superb persistence and mounting sweetness. (Josh Raynolds, Vinous, June 2019)

Incredible. Exotic spices and red fruit. Tons of acidity and a long finish. Might be the best Oregon Pinot I’ve had.

Nice acid and searing fruit. Extreme but good.