A bouquet of 16 rosés to pack for your summer picnic or enjoy during a summer storm Another one from Oregon, this wine serves up notes of watermelon, almond, earth, citrus and bright acidity, all leading to a crisp finish.

If there is one pinot noir to discover this year, it’s the Gran Moraine. Delightfully eloquent with a Provence-like appeal, it has a delicate coral color; exquisite cherry, watermelon and tangerine flavors; and balanced acidity. A very nice package.

Try These 20 Great Rosés From France and the West Coast Made from whole-cluster pressed pinot noir from a great growing region of Oregon, this balanced and fresh rosé has bright strawberry and watermelon flavors with nice citrus notes.

15 New Wines You Should Be Serving at Your Wedding Oregon’s Willamette Valley is known for many things (and creating many wines), but their Rosé of Pinot Noir is so smooth it could easily pass for a South of France top contender. Let’s just put it this way: Notes of Chinese gooseberry, Asian pear, and honeysuckle nectar are going to make your partygoers’ palates extremely happy.

Turkey and Salmon Sliders Paired with Rosé Pale salmon in color. Aromas of tangerine and rose. On the palate, bright acidity, light/medium body with notes of cherries, citrus zest, and wet stone.

Happy Pinot Noir Day! Toasting This Morning on KXAS/NBC DFW I am thrilled that Gran Moraine has also recently added a dry Rose to their portfolio of wines from their Yamhill-Carlton vineyard, layered with white peach, nectarine and berry.

The wine is a true expression of the vintage, the Yamhill-Carlton AVA, and the culture of Oregon’s northern Willamette Valley. 2016 was a generous vintage, with aromas of black cherries, plum and spice. Notes of black cherries and spice exude from the glass. Nice notes of black cherry and black pepper. Exceptionally balanced with nice soft tannins, bright acidity and long memorable finish.

This wine is an ‘iron fist in a velvet glove’ with an elegant body that is packed with lots of aromatics and flavors of dried cherries, pressed flowers and crumbled earth that is all at once silky smooth and riveting in its delivery. The lot size is 5 cases. Grand Moraine’s vineyard is located in the Coast Range foothills at the wild western edge of Willamette Valley. Some of their beliefs include LIVE certification, reducing yields as much as possible, picking fruit at the cusp of ripeness and using native ferments.

Obsession in the Willamette Valley, Part Four The final Gran Moraine we tasted was the 2016 Upland, which Shane called his most masculine wine from the label that can be “put up against serious protein” on the dinner table. It was certainly the heaviest and darkest of what we tried, but the baking spices and minty finish offered a nice balance against the dark and heavy fruit.

Favorite Oregon Pinot Noir Bottles from Jackson Family Wines A Pinot Noir by winemaker Shane Moore, our first sip of immediately lit up our palate. It tastes of earthy mushrooms with warm spices and a hint of citrus. Each glass is filled with aromas of juicy berries and herbs that instantaneously made us want braised meats or duck. Since you’re on an Oregon wine kick, make a mental note to check back in with Gran Moraine IN A FEW years. They will be releasing a Blanc de Blanc in the spring of 2020 that was already stellar when we tried it this fall.

This is Chardonnay from 100 feet above sea level and in a rain shadow, and all this comes through in the wine. The salinity, from the high elevation and lack of rain, will slake your thirst and leave you with a nice, medium finish. While in your nose and on your palate you’ll experience a very refreshing Chardonnay with notes green apple, toasted coconut and a hint of honeysuckle. The key to this wine is the acidity, as it is in a good place to keep all the characteristics individual. This wine wants, nay, needs, a meat and cheese plate stat. Rating - A.

Pinot to Ponder This Northern Willamette Valley producer from the Yamhill-Carlton region always presents alluring Oregon Pinot Noir. Typically there is less earthiness than you’d expect from Oregon, and more bright rich red fruit with an earthy backbone. Red raspberry, black cherry, cranberry, rhubarb, anise, blueberry and always with a centered acidity. Lighter in style but with a mouth-filling richness, it’s aged just 11 months in smaller barriques with less than 40% of that as new wood, allowing the fruit to shine through.

Obsession in the Willamette Valley, Part Four In 2016, Shane made a bottling called Cascade from two south-facing blocks in the Gran Moraine vineyard of 115 and 667 clones. The fruit was fermented in topless wooden barriques in order to moderate the tannins. Requiring hand punch downs, the lots took 30 hours for fermentation to take. All-in-all, it was the most labor intensive and stressful wine of the vintage. The result is an impressively complete wine that really envelops the mouth. It’s more savory than the Estate Reserve/Dropstone, and the fruit is quite layered as well.

Obsession in the Willamette Valley, Part Four For the 2015 vintage, the name was changed from Estate Reserve to Dropstone, and it is just gorgeous on all fronts. The florals were bright and perfumed, setting up an elegant tannin structure that pulls the wine forward in the mouth. Violets and roses really show through at this stage, while the fruit will take some time to develop. This one offers tremendous promise.

I loved the purity and focused, finesseful feel of this wine; the bright, upbeat red and blue fruited Pinot qualities humming along with great clarity through a silken middle and prolonged, lip smacking finish. Gran Moraine winemaker Shane Moore tells us, “The Dropstone was blended from our two different estate vineyards to combine elegance and power, which I think is what Yamhill-Carlton is all about.... The 777 on our winery block usually drips with intense red fruit and driving acidity, and the Pommard Clone 4 at our Gran Moraine Vineyard faces due south, bringing barely ripe yet ethereal blue fruit, more elegance and spice... I try to coax the spice and intense fruit out of these wines without pulling out too much extraction (long cold soaks, cool ferments, relatively little cap manipulation, only once-filled oak, picking on the earlier side, and no extended maceration or whole cluster).”

Five of the Best American Pinot Noirs Under $45, Tasted and Ranked A “‘shroomy and zesty” wine, as one taster described it, the Gran Moraine Pinot Noir has great depth to the nose, which is full of cherry, earth, and floral notes. Rich with black fruit and cranberry flavors, it tastes truly “Oregonian,” while its velvety tannins provide a “smooth finish.”

60+ high-end wines: Our 2018 guide to prices, flavors … The rich, creamy and delicious 2015 Gran Moraine Pinot Noir ($45, Ore) has black fruits and a long finish. …

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10 Outstanding Pinot Noirs From £ 10-50 Using fruit from a prized vineyard that was bought by the Jackson Family in 2013, Gran Moraine was born in 2014. Made by brilliant winemaker Eugenia Keegan – partner of Oregon pioneer David Adelsheim – this is a stunning example of darkly coloured intense Pinot, with black cherry fruit, along with vanilla notes from new barriques. While lovely to drink now, it has the potential to develop even greater complexity over time.

Pinot Noir Masters 2019: Master Using fruit from a prized vineyard that was bought by the Jackson Family in 2013, Gran Moraine was born in 2014. Made by brilliant winemaker Eugenia Keegan – partner of Oregon pioneer David Adelsheim – this is a stunning example of darkly coloured intense Pinot, with black cherry fruit, along with vanilla notes from new barriques. While lovely to drink now, it has the potential to develop even greater complexity over time.

Wine Press: 10 Wines Worth Splurging On This Holiday Season After spending the last paragraph extolling the virtues of blended red wines, I sure didn't waste much time contradicting myself. This single-grape, red wine illustrates everything I love about Pinot Noirs from Oregon. This wine has a rich, earthy finish bursting with fruit flavors yet still manages to be very dry. No wonder so many winemakers from France's Burgundy region (the Holy Land for Pinot Noir worshipers) have been snatching up land here and growing Pinot Noir grapes in the Willamette Valley. Truly a great, delicious wine which should developed and blossom with age.

Obsession in the Willamette Valley, Part Four We began the Gran Moraine tasting with the 2015 Yamhill-Carlton pinot noir, which is always one of the best pinots at its price. It’s an AVA blend and, as one would expect based on previous vintages and Shane’s style, it had bright acid, delicate florals, spice box, mounds of red fruit and a depth that slowly sneaks up to you;. It’s a wine that, by the time you’ve had a class, you realize you’re deeper into the wine they you expected or knew. For $45 it’s a hard to beat pinot noir.

Why It's Time To Try Oregon Pinot Noir Now This wine is named for the epic floods of the last ice age---floods that dominated the northern Willamette Valley and whose earthly remnants are the very terroir that inspire so many Oregon wines. The 2015 shows bright, almost sweet notes of bing cherry and pomegranate. Very juicy and silky on the palate.

Obsession in the Willamette Valley, Part Four We then moved on to the 2014 Estate Reserve. Though not as warm as the 2012 growing season, it was warmer than 2013, and the wine bore that out. A bit sweeter, rounder and plusher on the palate than its most immediate younger sibling, the structure was more robust with seriously dense tannin, which is hiding the flavors a bit at this stage. I imagine that within two to three years it will begin to show itself well, and improve over the following five to ten.

Wine of incredible quality in a breathtaking setting Aromas of cranberry, cassis, and pine with flavors of pomegranate, huckleberry, sandalwood and milk chocolate.