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Item Number: 6169
UPC: None
Country: USA
Region: Oregon
Sub Region: Willamette Valley
Appellation/AVA: Dundee Hills
Vintage: 2010
Grape(s): 100% Pinot Noir
Type: Wine - Red
Bottle Size: 750ml Pack: 12
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 13
Soil Type: Jory
Case Production: 150
Average Age of Vines: 30 years old
Harvest: Hand harvest
Clones: Pommard, Wadensvil, Coury
The Sandra Adele Pinot Noir is a cuvée named for Jay’s mother, Sandy. Typically it is a blend of fruit from two outstanding vineyards in the Dundee Hills AVA: Abbey Ridge and Charlie’s Vineyard. Vinification: 100% destemmed; 2.5 ton fermenters; native yeast; unforced malolactic fermentation; maturation for 20 months in barrel.
93pts (2011 vintage) Wine Advocate 10/2013
"Sourced, as it was last year, from Charlie’s and Abbey Ridge vineyards on Worden Hill Road (and including Somers’ entire crop from the latter, as he did not essay an Abbey Ridge-dedicated 2011), the J. Christopher 2011 Pinot Noir Sandra Adele comprises 146 cases. A lovely, sachet-like herbal and floral melange in the nose – with rose petal and lavender prominent – is complimented by fragrant and juicy evocations of cherry and red currant. Silken and caressing but at the same time bright and juicy, this acquires salted caramel, veal stock, and faintly sweaty carnal-mineral notes in a long finish that preserves all of the captivating floral, herbal, and berry allure promised on the nose. I would anticipate a fine show through at least 2022."
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