Cooper Mountain
Pinot Noir
2019 being a cooler vintage, Barbera lauded this year’s Pinot Noir for bringing them back to the old days. This is a Pinot for the Willamette purists, still sliding down to 13.5% ABV this year and offering terrific structure, happy acidity, and the legs to go 5-10 years in any Oregon fan’s cellar. The wine is nevertheless showing well right out the gate, greeting us with aromas of sour cherry pie, raspberry confit, clove tobacco, kola nut, white pepper, chocolate mint, and some nuancing earthy notes of crushed gravel and potting soil. The oak spice is beautifully integrated and brackets the wine with a nice, leathery, nutmeg outline. Classy and classic.
Region: Willamette Valley, Oregon
Appellation: Willamette Valley AVA
Varietal/Blend: 100% Pinot Noir (Pommard Clone)
ABV: 13.5%
Vineyard & Vine Age: Bull Swamp and Manilla vineyards in Baw Baw Shire. The vines were planted in 1961 and and 1964 respectively.
Cellar: Cooper Mountain Pinot Noir undergoes a pre-fermentation cold soak, followed by indigenous yeast fermentation in 1.5-ton fermenters. The wine is aged for 10 months in Vosges and Nevers oak, with 20% matured in new barriques.
CSPC: 800863
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What the Critics are saying: []
Region: Willamette Valley, Oregon
Appellation: Willamette Valley AVA
TECHNICAL INFO
Varietal/Blend: 100% Pinot Noir (Pommard Clone)
ABV: 13.5%
Vineyard: Cooper Mountain Pinot Noir is hand-harvested from certified biodynamic vineyards spanning 85–205 meters. It blends fruit from Johnson School (Laurelwood, 1999), Meadowlark (Willakenzie, 1982), and Old Vines (Saum, 1978), under a temperate oceanic climate in the Willamette Valley.
Cellar: Cooper Mountain Pinot Noir undergoes a pre-fermentation cold soak, followed by indigenous yeast fermentation in 1.5-ton fermenters. The wine is aged for 10 months in Vosges and Nevers oak, with 20% matured in new barriques.
CSPC: 800863
Winemakers Note: []
What the Critics are saying: []
Giovanni Autuori
Calgary + Alberta South
T: 403-971-1898
E: giovanni@vinoalvino.ca
Joe Gurba
Edmonton + Alberta North
T: 780-203-5284
E: joeg@vinoalvino.ca
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TECHNICAL INFO
Country: United States
Region: Willamette Valley, Oregon
Appellation: Willamette Valley AVA
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Varietal/Blend: 100% Pinot Noir (Pommard Clone)
Fermentation: Spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in old oak puncheons.
Ageing:
Vineyard & Vine Age: Bull Swamp and Manilla vineyards in Baw Baw Shire. The vines were planted in 1961 and and 1964 respectively.
ABV: 13.5%
Produced Cases: 50
CSPC: 800863
Calgary + Alberta South
Andrew Stewart
403-604-0408
andrew@vinoalvino.ca
Edmonton + Alberta North
Joe Gurba
780-203-5284
joe@vinoalvino.ca
Saskatoon + Saskatchewan South
Kerrie Gavin
306-290-0277
kerrie@vinoalvino.ca
