Lange Winery Reserve Pinot Noir (375ML half-bottle) 2022
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Lange's Reserve series wines have a higher percentage of fruit from their premier vineyard sites. These selections, made barrel by barrel, were carefully chosen over time and include fruit from Freedom Hill, Mistletoe, Durant, Yamhill, Hirschy, Madrona Hill, and their own Lange Estate vineyards.
By blending barrels from multiple vineyards, father and son winemaking duo, Don and Jesse Lange, have translated the vintage into a single cuvée while showcasing all the versatility and range pinot noir is capable of expressing. A hallmark of this series is the smoothly honed tannins that lend shape to a wine with fantastic richness, power, and nuance.
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A barrel selection from several top sites the Langes work with, Freedom Hill, Mistletoe, Durant, Yamhill, Hirschy, Madrona Hill, and the Lange Estate vineyard. This is a wine built to endure, only revealing itself slightly now. Dusty mint aromatics speak first, followed quickly by blue fruit accents of wild mountain berries. The palate shows a rich concentration of blue and black fruits, tangy blackberries and huckleberries with mint. Turned earth, pine bough and a persistent note of wintergreen throughout. Black tea leaves and a lifted spice character take you to a very persistent finish.
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Generous and polished, showing multilayered raspberry and cherry flavors laced with notes of savory cinnamon and orange-tinged tea. Finishes with refined tannins. Drink now through 2032.
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A rich blackberry aroma forms a blissful union with a meaty note similar to a seared steak rubbed with paprika. The wine's dark raspberry and dark chocolate flavors are pierced by a burst of blood orange juice and searing acidity. The texture of the wine is as silky as its tannins.
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The 2022 Pinot Noir Reserve blossoms with a bouquet of wild berries and florals. This is lifted in feel with silky textures and polished red and blue fruits underscored by tactile mineral tones. Suggestions of lavender candies and violet inner florals linger long as the 2022 leaves subtly grippy tannins and slowly fading hints of sour citrus.
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Spicy and lifted, the 2022 Pinot Noir Reserve pours a jeweled ruby hue and is forward with aromas of medicinal herbs, black cherry preserve, and blood orange. Full-bodied and plush on the palate, it offers a velvety texture, with its characteristic floral perfume shining all the way through the palate, and has wonderful purity of its fruit on a long finish, with sweet tannins. It’s another super-charming wine now but will have a large drinking window as it shed its baby fat and reveals its more savory and umami tones. Drink 2023-2033.
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More than thirty years ago, Don and Wendy Lange founded their winery in the Dundee Hills of Oregon's northern Willamette Valley. The year 1987 marked the Langes' first vintage and consisted of the three varietals they embrace today: Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, and Chardonnay.
New-world pioneers in the production of Pinot Gris, Lange Estate was the first to release a barrel-fermented reserve–an effort Matt Kramer of the WINE SPECTATOR calls "a bench-mark bottling." Don Lange's work as a winemaker has been termed "brilliant "by Hugh Johnson, and the WINE ENTHUSIAST proclaimed Lange Estate to be "one of the great Pinot Noir producers in the United States."
Lange Estate is known for crafting beautifully balanced wines from fruit grown on the winery Estate, located in the heart of the prestigious Dundee Hills appellation. To further supplement our case production, the Langes purchase additional fruit from the best vineyards in the surrounding area. Long-standing relationships with these blue-ribbon sites have helped the winery establish a well-deserved reputation for consistency and complexity in the wines.
Home of some of the planet’s most amazingly elegant and expressive Pinot noir, the Willamette Valley is a pastoral, mixed landscape of green, bucolic rolling hills, dramatic forestlands and small, independent, friendly wine growers. As a leader in environmental stewardship, the valley has some of the nation’s most protective land use policies, with two-thirds of its vineyards farmed sustainably and over half, organically. While the valley claims a cool, continental climate, and is heavily influenced by the cold, moist winds of the Pacific Ocean, its warm and dry summers allow for the steady, even ripening of Pinot noir.
The potential of Willamette Valley Pinot noir continues to attract the investment of serious growers and winemakers both locally and from abroad, as naturally the finished wines bring accolades from professionals and enthusiasts. With a range of styles from delicate dried cherry, raspberry and hibiscus to stronger notes of truffle, mocha, plum and spice, a fine Willamette Valley Pinot noir is a perfect expression of both character and grace.