St. Innocent - Temperance Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir Eola-Amity Hills Vineyard 2019
Price: $49.99
| Producer | St. Innocent |
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| Country | USA |
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| Region | Oregon |
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| Subregion | Willamette Valley |
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| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
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| Vintage | 2019 |
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| Sku | 36055 |
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St. Innocent Description
The nose is a lovely mixture of black cherry, raspberry, and wild strawberry scent. Allspice and Vietnamese cinnamon seamlessly intertwine with hints of mace. The mouth surprises you with the fullness of spicy dark red fruit and lush, juicy acidity that slowly morphs into dried cherry and allspice flavors.
Wine Enthusiast: 95 Points
This wine is a testament to what happens when you match fruit from a great vineyard with a skilled winemaking hand. Raspberries, lilacs and blueberry honey form an aromatic Justice League, followed by similar flavors of raspberries, cacao nibs and lavender tea. The wine’s acidity is still kicking, which is what you will be doing to yourself if you don’t buy some.
James Suckling: 93 Points
Cherries, dried strawberries, rose hips and oyster shells on the nose. Some lemon peel. It’s medium-bodied, tight and refined, with relatively firm tannins and a more mineral finish. Let it open. Drink from 2024.
Wine Spectator: 92 Points
Precise and well-knit, with deep flavors of cherry and guava highlighted by earthy mineral and black tea notes as this builds tension toward medium-grained tannins. Drink now through 2030. 777 cases made.
Wine & Spirits: 92 Points
Mark Vlossak has been drawing from Temperance Hill vineyard since 1994. His latest bottling is light and glossy, with a lifted red-cherry scent and a fine, toffee’d caramel note. With air, spice and tobacco flavors fill in the broad middle palate, only to tighten up nicely with the typical tannic firmness of the site. Give it some cellar time to allow those tannins to integrate.
