Montinore Red Cap Pinot Noir 2020 (6 Bottles) Willamette Valley, Oregon

by Fine Wine Cellars

$421.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

LIVE certified sustainable. The lion’s share of Montinore’s entry-level Pinot is drawn from dry-farmed estate vines, with a small portion of fruit coming from a sustainably farmed vineyard in Yamhill-Carlton.

The latter site, with its warmer microclimate on volcanic soils, brings juicy fruit weight to a bright and silky Pinot that is blended to enjoy from the start.

To this end, the fruit is destemmed and fermented in small, open-top steel vessels and matured in a mixture of stainless steel and French and Hungarian oak for 10 months before bottling.

It’s a balanced and harmonious Pinot Noir of bright cherry and red plum fruit, matched to earthy tones and some warm, spicy depth. It’s just bursting with flavour, structure and energy, compact and charming with enduring length and a juicy, bright close. A cracker considering the price.

“Richer and fuller with ripe-strawberry and orange-peel aromas and flavors. Medium to full body, creamy tannins and a juicy finish. Drinkable now, but better in a year or two.” 92 points,  James Suckling com

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About Montinore Estate Wines

To understand Montinore Estate, one must first understand the man behind it. Rudy Marchesi, third generation winemaker and son of Italian immigrants, has worked with vines, in some shape or form, all his life. Winemaker, viticulturalist, salesman, owner/operator… you name it, over the last 40 years, he’s done it. In 1998, Marchesi began consulting to Montinore Estate, an 80-hectare site in the Tualatin Hills sub-AVA in the northwesternmost corner of the Willamette Valley. Always an avid proponent of organics, he converted the site to organic farming in 2001.

Then, going deeper down the agricultural advocacy rabbit hole, he completed a course in biodynamics in 2003 and incorporated those practices into the Montinore approach—Demeter certification would be attained by 2008. Marchesi purchased the property in 2005 and, in the years since, has positioned Montinore as the unequivocal leader of biodynamic farming in the Willamette Valley.

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