Archery Summit, Dundee Hills Pinot Noir 2021
Archery Summit, Dundee Hills Pinot Noir 2021
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Archery Summit are one of the leading wineries in Oregon, perfectly utilising the cooler climate of the Willamette Valley to produce distinctly American wines but with a Burgundian accent. This 2021 vintage of their Dundee Hills AVA Pinot Noir is graced with notes of ripe blackberry, cherry, brambles, and currants, with subtle earth and dried herbs in the finish. The long aftertaste is nurtured by silky tannins and a pleasantly angular acidity.
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Score 97
No one is naïve about the difficulties and challenges of growing Pinot Noir away from its home in Burgundy (even there, of course, it isn’t easy). Pinot has taken to Oregon’s Willamette Valley with remarkable success, though, and especially to the red-soiled Dundee Hills. This 2021 wine is a fine example of the charm, balance and satisfaction that fine Dundee Hills Pinot can provide. Translucent scarlet in colour, with magnetically attractive raspberry scents, once on the palate the wine is soft-contoured yet energetic, with arresting intensity of fruit. Here the raspberry shades into something more curranty and tenacious, and there are refreshing bitter notes in the finish, too, with a hint of earthiness perhaps derived from the clays of volcanic origin in which the vines grow. The warm edge of cool climate? Perhaps – and it makes for beautiful drinking.
