2022 WV Blend pinot noir
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A blend of pinot noir sourced from three premium Willamette Valley vineyards. This is the first Lenné vintage made by our new winemaker Jared Etzel, and this wine enjoyed extended aging in French oak. It is full-bodied with bold fruit flavors, and has beautiful balance and complexity for such a young wine,. As with all Lenné pinots, it will only improve with several years of cellar aging.
The Willamette valley is a portal into the blend of our most elegant and early accessible barrels of the Star Dance, Lenné, and Case vineyards. It is comprised of 40% press fraction and 60% free run and shows a feminine and floral profile from the combination of the press wine and aging in neutral wood barrel.
It was bottled unfined and unfiltered after 12 months of aging.
--Jared Etzel, winemaker
Vintage Notes
The 2022 growing season was uniquely challenging. The Spring was cold and wet, capped off by a freak storm that dropped several inches of snow in late April. We had not yet seen bud break in the Lenne vineyard, but the freezing temperatures set the new growth well behind schedule. May and June continued cool and cloudy, but thankfully when the summer finally arrived it came with a vengeance, and we saw a record number of days above 90 degrees through August and September. Early October was much warmer and dryer than usual, and the small fruitset finally ripened enough to harvest by mid-October, four weeks later than usual.
The resulting wines are complex and very reflective of their winemaker's technique. Many Willamette Valley pinot noirs from 2022 are light and delicate, with a thin mouthfeel. Our Lenné pinots received extended barrel time, which helped give them a much richer, bolder texture.
