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90 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
"The 2009 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley has alluring notes of cedar, cinnamon, clove, raspberry, and cherry that inform the nose of a ripe, supple-textured, elegant, nicely proportioned wine that will provide enjoyment over the next 6-7 years." - Jay Miller (Oct 2011)

90 Points - Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar:
"Bright red.  High-pitched red berry and spice aromas are complicated by notes of candied rose, herbs and white pepper.  Suave, silky and precise, offering sweet strawberry and raspberry flavors and a deeper note of bitter cherry.  Nicely balanced and pure, with very good finishing clarity and length.  There's something almost Chambolle-like here." - Josh Raynolds (Jul/Aug '11)

91 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate ('08 Vintage):
"The 2008 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley which contains 5% purchased fruit. Medium ruby in color, it gives up an alluring bouquet of cedar, cinnamon, incense, black raspberry, and black cherry that jumps from the glass. This leads to a dense, ripe, spicy, well-balanced wine with enough structure to evolve for 2-3 years (ageability being a significant trait of the vintage). This lengthy effort will be at its best from 2012 to 2020." - Jay Miller (Oct 2010)

91 Points & "Editor's Choice" - Wine Enthusiast Magazine ('08 Vintage):
"Once again, the Burgundian touch of Veronique Drouhin has crafted a wine of surpassing elegance and immaculate structure. This is the antithesis of a jammy, California style yet it retains much of the vibrancy of New World fruit rather than the suppressed rusticity of Burgundy. Delicate cherry and tart plum fruit is sculpted into a wine with nuanced details of cola and coffee and spice."  — P.G.  (3/1/2011)