Soter Vineyards Estates Pinot Noir 2021
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Soter Vineyards Estates Pinot Noir offers aromas of wild cherry pit, blueberry skins, and black pepper. Primary flavors of dark cherry, Oregon grape, and wild blueberry. Secondary flavors of fruit leather and brown baking spice. The finish is round with grippy tannins.
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James Suckling
This shows aromas of red plums and dried wild strawberries with hints of chocolate orange, red licorice, dried flowers and crushed stones. Medium- to full-bodied, plush and complex with velvety tannins that are soft and lingering. Attractive core of ripe red fruit and a chocolaty finish. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification.
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Wine Spectator
Grace meets tension in this impeccably structured Pinot, which delivers cherry and brooding blueberry flavors that pick up accents of forest floor, river stone and dark, dusky spices. Concludes with medium-grained tannins. Drink now through 2033.
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Wine Enthusiast
What’s not to love about wild strawberry, grilled peach and rose petals filling the air as you swirl a glass of wine? That’s what we call a rhetorical question. The medium-bodied wine’s dark raspberry, dark chocolate and orange blend pipe tobacco flavors are equally enjoyable.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2021 Pinot Noir Estate pours a saturated youthful ruby-red and reveals well-balanced layers of aromas of scorched earth, pine resin, and preserved black cherry. Elegant and full-bodied, it has a refined texture, fine tannins, and a clean, stony finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 Pinot Noir Estates has a medium ruby color and scents of briary fruit with touches of cinnamon, citrus peel and fir. Medium-bodied, soft and juicy, it has notably concentrated fruit and a long, spicy finish. This is very easy to drink!
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Tony Soter is the founder of Soter Vineyards at Mineral Springs Ranch in Yamhill-Carlton, Oregon. Soter is a Portland, Oregon, native who began his remarkable 40-year winemaking career in the Napa Valley. After graduating from Pomona College in southern California with a degree in philosophy, Soter joined the staff at Stag's Leap Wine Cellars in 1975 to learn the trade. By 1982, he released his own wine under the Etude label, selling the winery almost 20 years later to Treasury Wine Estates. In the meantime, Soter worked as consulting winemaker for such world-famous Napa estates as Araujo (now Eisele), Chappellet, Dalla Valle, Shafer, and Spottswoode, among others. After almost 30 years in California, Soter moved back to Oregon and founded Soter Vineyards in 1997, where he is still making some of the most heralded pinot noirs in the state.
Today, Soter focuses on biodynamic grape growing to create rich flavors and substance. His cellar techniques look to the wisdom of past generations, trusting those natural processes to evoke the voice and character of each vineyard.
There are three distinct labels produced by Soter:
1. SOTER VINEYARDS ... Illustrious estate-grown wines from Eola Amity, Ribbon Ridge, and Yamhill Carlton (where the Mineral Springs vineyard, farm, and winery are).
2. ORIGIN SERIES ... Limited single-appellation bottlings showcasing each AVA's unique microclimate, geographical features, and growing conditions.
3. PLANET OREGON ... affordable, delicious, organically-grown wines from the Willamette Valley, ready to drink tonight.
Home of some of the planet’s most amazingly elegant and expressive Pinot noir, the Willamette Valley is a pastoral, mixed landscape of green, bucolic rolling hills, dramatic forestlands and small, independent, friendly wine growers. As a leader in environmental stewardship, the valley has some of the nation’s most protective land use policies, with two-thirds of its vineyards farmed sustainably and over half, organically. While the valley claims a cool, continental climate, and is heavily influenced by the cold, moist winds of the Pacific Ocean, its warm and dry summers allow for the steady, even ripening of Pinot noir.
The potential of Willamette Valley Pinot noir continues to attract the investment of serious growers and winemakers both locally and from abroad, as naturally the finished wines bring accolades from professionals and enthusiasts. With a range of styles from delicate dried cherry, raspberry and hibiscus to stronger notes of truffle, mocha, plum and spice, a fine Willamette Valley Pinot noir is a perfect expression of both character and grace.