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Oregon 2022: The Rollercoaster Vintage
featured, United States: Oregon
, Aug 2024
From a decimating frost to a hot and dry summer, uneven ripening and a rushed harvest, Oregon growers and winemakers faced many challenges in 2022. Readers will need to be selective based on producer, but in many cases, perseverance yielded fascinating wines.
Sitting Pretty: Oregon's New Release Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Beyond
featured, United States: Oregon
, Jan 2024
Producers in Oregon have made a remarkable comeback following the nearly non-existent 2020s, with two vintages that are stylistically yin and yang, yet are sure to win the hearts of long-time collectors.
Cellar Favorite: 2010 Beaux Frères Pinot Noir The Beaux Frères Vineyard
Cellar Favorites, United States: Oregon, cellar favorite
, Oct 2023
The 2010 Pinot Noir The Beaux Frères Vineyard is a perfect example of how maturity can propel a wine of humble beginnings beyond expectations. The 2010s are the product of a cool and classic vintage that made producers question when the wines would peak. Today, the wines are in the sweet spot.
Oregon’s 2019 Pinot Noirs - A Return to Classicism
featured, United States: Oregon
, Feb 2022
The Willamette Valley’s winning streak, which has seldom been interrupted for almost the past two decades, continued through 2019, a year that has produced some epic Pinot Noirs of noteworthy elegance and energy. This is truly a golden age for high-quality Pinot Noirs from across Oregon. One could convincingly argue that the last six vintages, from 2014 through 2019, produced many of the greatest wines to ever emerge from the state.
Oregon Outside the Pinot Noir Box
featured, United States: Oregon
, Sep 2020
For many wine lovers, Oregon, and especially the Willamette Valley, is all Pinot Noir, all the time. Perhaps no other region in the New World is so closely associated with a single variety. And yet there’s so much more happening here, especially with Chardonnay. White wine and reds not made from Pinot Noir are approaching almost half of our annual Oregon coverage, which is a remarkable development over the last decade.
Oregon Pinot Noir: The Winning Streak Continues
featured, United States: Oregon
, Jul 2020
Oregon’s unprecedented run of outstanding vintages which began in 2014, has been extended yet again with 2018. In fact, you have to go all the way back to 2011 and 2007 to find years that were truly challenging, and both of those vintages actually produced a large number of outstanding wines.
Winemaking and Wine Marketing in a Plague Year
United States: California, Argentina, featured, Australia, Italy, United States: Oregon, General Interest, New Zealand, France
, May 2020
In just the past couple of months, the novel coronavirus has profoundly changed the production and sale of wine around the globe. In this roundtable interview, 35 producers get specific about the challenges they are facing.
Oregon: An Embarrassment of Riches and Richness
featured, United States: Oregon
, Jun 2019
Two thousand sixteen is yet another link in an unprecedented chain of outstanding vintages in the Willamette Valley that began in 2014 and has now extended to 2018. Compared to the ‘14s and ‘15s, the ‘16s, while on the rich side for Pinot Noir, show more freshness than wines of the previous years at a similar stage.
Oregon’s Expanding Palette of Wines
featured, United States: Oregon
, Feb 2018
Fueled by steadily increasing production of first-class Rieslings and Chardonnays, Oregon’s wineries are proving that they can do much more than just make great Pinot Noir.
Oregon Pushes the Quality Needle for Pinot
featured, United States: Oregon
, Jan 2018
The 2015 vintage for Oregon Pinot Noir is an all-around winner in terms of quality and quantity. The 2015 Pinots, the main focus of this year’s report, are already commanding intense demand in the market and what ‘14s are still out there, including many of the late releases covered here, are also hot commodities.