Winemaker Notes
Reserve Pinot Noir is textbook Willamette Valley Point Noir, a balancing point between the characteristics of fruit grown in the Dundee Hills, Eola-Amity Hills, and the Willamette Valley AVAs.
Food Pairing Notes
Argyle Pinot Noirs are long aging, maintaining their high natural acidity and minerality borne of late season ripening and fresh fruit character. This wine can be cellared for 10-15 years (or more).
Vineyard Notes
The 2019 growing season began with a cold and wet winter followed by wet and warm spring, leading to a late-April budbreak. A few frost scares in April gave way to a warmer than average spring. The early June bloom was dry and sunny, with a touch of rain affecting the later ripening Spirit Hill Vineyard in the cool, windy Eola-Amity Hills. Some late-June and early July precipitation created a small amount of disease pressure, while the rest of the summer was quite moderate, with fewer heat spikes than we've seen the last number of summers. September brought with it a significant cool down and a series of scattered rain showers, making harvest much more old-school Oregon, dancing with the whims of Mother Nature. A more classically spread out harvest, we started with Pinot Noir in the Dundee Hills on September 4th and finished with Pinot Noir in the upper elevations of the Eola-Amity Hills at Spirit Hill Vineyard on October 16th.
