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Amalie Robert Estate

Situated as it is on the outskirts of Dallas, at the southwestern end of the Willamette Valley and pretty far removed from the action in and around Dundee, Dayton, Newberg and McMinnville, Dena Drews and Ernie Pink’s winery barely registers on most visitors’ radar. That’s a real shame, especially for fans of the delicate, graceful school of Pinot Noir, which is decidedly the style that’s emphasized here. A wide range of wines, almost entirely Pinot Noir, are made from the 35 acres of estate vines, and Drews and Pink aren’t afraid to hold them back for late or successive releases depending on the personality of each individual bottling. In warm vintages the effects of the weather expresse themselves on the wines here, but rarely do they head into dark fruit territory, even in years like 2012. The sprawling (for the production level) winery is a gravity-fed operation and the wines are usually made with a healthy percentage of whole clusters. New oak plays a variable role depending on vintage and there’s no hesitation to use a good dose of it if the wine’s material is deemed up to the task. The 2011s here show the racy style of the vintage to good effect and I found the wines’ fruit to be plenty expressive, if not on the more opulent side of the equation, which is more the case with the 2012s here, predictably.

From Oregon Pinot Noir: The Exceptional 2014s and Often Surprising 2013s (Dec 2016) by Josh Raynolds

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2012 Pinot Noir The Other Reserve

Release Price: $100

Color: Red

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