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• White Wine

  2011 Pinot Gris, WillaKenzie Estate

  £2800

  This is Frenchman owner Bernard Lacroute homage to Alsace.  He has 18 acres of Pinot Gris planted with clones from the Alsace region and uses yeast from Alsace in the winemaking process – chosen to enhance the fruit’s aromatics. 

  In the glass it has exciting aromatics that include tropical fruits of ripe melon, lychee, passion fruit, papaya, mango and pineapple, with a hint of spice. The wine has a creamy texture with rich flavours of honey, juicy Asian pears, lemon meringue and fresh pineapple. There’s a smooth transition mid-palate heading toward bright acids, which imparts a perfect balance of sweetness and acidity.  

   

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• Red Wine

  2011 Estate Cuvée Pinot Noir, WillaKenzie Estate

  £3950

  Named after the marine sedimentary soil that defines it, WillaKenzie Estate is one of Oregon’s top-flight wine producers: a small, family-owned winery making wonderfully intense but balanced wines exclusively from the Pinot family of grapes from their own estate vineyards.

  This wine has a deep but bright garnet colour and offers complex aromas of rich red and black fruits with attractive floral tones and a touch of spice. Elegant yet concentrated, flavours of bright plum and cherry in the forefront augmented by red currants and blackberries, a smooth mouthfeel from well-integrated tannins and finely balanced acidity, and a long finish with hints of candied fruit and spice. 

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• Red Wine

  2010 Mineral Springs Ranch Pinot Noir, Soter

  £5500

  This mature Soter Pinot Noir has brilliant clarity in the glass with aromas of spice, red raspberry and cranberry fruit and a classic Oregon earthiness. The entry is silken, even mouth-coating, and juicy, ripe berry flavours dominate the palate. Lively acidity and fine tannin are in elegant balance. Chocolate, earth and black fruits linger with pleasing persistence on a sleek framework. 

  Mineral Spring Ranch is a 240-acre Biodynamic farm and vineyard in the heart of Oregon wine country. Mineral Springs Vineyard consists of 40 acres of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay situated along the ridge-line of the property. The combination of respectful farming, ancient marine soils, and temperate climate, result in wines that are layered, nuanced, and captivating while expressing their singular place of origin.

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• Red Wine

  2009 Mineral Springs White Label Pinot Noir, Soter

  £8975

  Aromas of dried cherries, blueberries and wild fennel lead into a palate of plum, dried cherry and liquorice root with hints of sweet cola and that classic Oregon Pinot characteristic of earthiness.

  “2009 marks just the second bottling of Mineral Springs Pinot Noir and is sourced predominantly from our Heirloom clones found in an area near the crown of the property. We produced precious little of this wine – just a few hundred cases – and it speaks with a more singular, amplified voice as the purest expression of Pinot Noir from our vineyard.” 

  Mineral Spring Ranch is a 240-acre Biodynamic farm and vineyard in the heart of Oregon wine country. Mineral Springs Vineyard consists of 40 acres of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay situated along the ridge-line of the property. The combination of respectful farming, ancient marine soils, and temperate climate, result in wines that are layered, nuanced, and captivating while expressing their singular place of origin.

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• Red Wine

  2009 The Upper Terraces Pinot Noir, Beaux Frères

  £11000

  Beaux Frères is one of  the most critically acclaimed wineries in Oregon. Not only is Beaux Frères producing impressive expressions of Pinot Noir from the Willamette Valley, it is also co-owned by arguably the most famous wine critic in the world, Robert Parker.

  The Upper Terrace Vineyard Pinot Noir is always the most noble of the wines from Beaux Frères, has the highest potential for greatness and is always a very limited production of less than 600 cases.   It can easily age for 15 plus years. so with 11 years on the clock this magnificent Pinot Noir is starting to hit its straps!    Ruby hued, this wine exhibits notes of red currants and sandy, loamy undertones. Medium bodied, spicebox, Christmas fruitcake and herbs. There is a depth and richness normally to be found in this vineyard planted to Dijon clones. This vintage shows a different side of this vineyard, one of elegance and light: the fruit profile is more one of red fruit than the normal dark fruit typical of this vineyard.

  The Upper Terrace Vineyard is planted on a steep South facing slope to Pinot Noir Dijon clones 113, 114, 115, 667, and 777 on three different rootstocks. The site has sedimentary soils and a slightly higher elevation than the original Beaux Frères vineyard.

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