Argyle Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2007

BN#245462

Argyle

The color is bright garnet! The aroma is a wonderful red cherry and cranberry fruit, chocolate spice, and a neat earth “Jory soil after a fall rainstorm”-like hint. The flavor is bright, complex, and fun! Look for red fruit of cherry and cranberry, cobbled mineral, Siskiyou forest floor, and black pepper spice. The red fruit fills and carries throughout the palate in a mouthwatering sweet centered finish!

Wine Advocate

The 2007 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley is medium ruby-colored with an enticing bouquet of toast, cinnamon, rose petal, cherry, and cranberry. Sweet and seamless on the palate, this elegant effort has a bit of structure, excellent concentration, and a lengthy, fruit-filled finish. Drink it over the next 6 years.

Score: 90. —Jay Miller, October 2009.

Wine Spectator

Light and fragrant, a very pretty, drink-me-now style that offers currant, spice and coffee flavors, emphasizing fruit on the persistent finish. Drink now through 2010.

Score: 89. —Harvey Steiman, 2008.

Wine Enthusiast

Almost 15,000 cases are made of this sturdy, solid Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. It’s got more muscle and weight than the cheaper stuff from elsewhere, though not the textural interest and nuance of many single vineyard bottlings. So it falls right in the middle, and is priced accordingly, delivering red fruits, hints of herb, light toast and coffee-flavored tannins.

Score: 88. —Paul Gregutt, October 01, 2009.