Bright red color. Fresh strawberry and raspberry on the nose. Deeper cola and rooty sassafras qualities emerge with aeration and carry onto the palate. Bitter cherry and raspberry preserve flavors offer very good depth and juicy palate coverage. Finishes tangy, clean and long, with the bitter cherry element carrying through. "I prefer Shea fruit in the cooler vintages like 2005," Bergstrom said, as this normally early-ripening site benefits from steady maturation of skin and seed tannins. Accordi...

Showing the tight structure that only the coolest growing areas seem to produce in Pinot Noir, this keenly defined bottling is all dark cherries, oak, dark chocolate and toast in the nose while its palatal impacts are initially supple and inviting. Tannin grabs the stage by mid-palate however, and this very well-made, wholly convincing effort wants two to five years of cellaring before it is going to show itself at its best.

Rating for United States-Oregon: 93 (good year)<br/><br/>Drinkability: young, aging quickly, could be good now<br/>