"Evenstad Reserve" Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, OR 2022

Professional Ratings

• 95 James Suckling
  So concentrated, layered and firmly structured, it’s fragrant in new-oak aromatics and built for long aging. A full body and muscular tannins balance lush, posh and ripe red and black fruit flavors that flood the palate and echo in the finish. This is complex, powerful and detailed. Drinkable now, but best from 2029.
• 95 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

  The 2022 Pinot Noir Evenstad Reserve has nuanced aromas of black cherry, lavender, mossy bark, earth and spice. The full-bodied palate is powerful and perfumed with a velvety texture. Its concentrated flavors are balanced by vibrant acidity, and it has a long, layered finish.

• 94 Jeb Dunnuck
  The 2022 Pinot Noir Evenstad Reserve is a saturated red color and is a touch shy initially as well, offering notes of red cherries, lightly iron-rich earth, leather, pressed flowers, and mushrooms. It fills the palate with medium-bodied richness, ripe tannins, and an even, balanced finish, with even ripeness throughout. It’s a very well-styled Pinot to enjoy over the coming 10-12 years.
• 92 Decanter
  The wine was 25% from Jerusalem Hill in the Eola-Amity Hills, with the rest from the Dundee Hills estate sites. Showing tertiary earth notes of sous bois, mushroom and freshly tilled soils, acidity lifts toward the finish, with peeks of red currant and cranberry with a raspberry leaf finish. The 2013 vintage was called a vintage in three parts, a very warm beginning with a cool summer and lots of rain nearer to harvest time. This wine shows fruit and freshness despite its 12 years of age.