2018 L'Autre Pinot Noir

2018 was a fine vintage for Willamette Valley Pinot Noir, with mid-September showers reviving vines stressed by a warm, arid summer, and thus laying the groundwork for excellent wines, like L’Autre. Temperance Hill Vineyard delivered bright, vibrant, yet rich and earthy, age worthy wine. One third whole cluster in the fermentation lends funky, mushroomy, five spice notes to its fresh crushed raspberry, rhubarb and wild strawberry flavors. We love Pinot Noir for its almost mystical Other Worldy goodies. This could be our best ever.

Food pairing: Roasted salmon with chanterelle butter or wild mushroom pot pie

Movie pairing: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

FOUNDERS’ NOTES:
In 2009 we were able to source some lovely pinot noir from Temperance Hill Vineyard in the Willamette Valley to make L'Autre. Mostly because we love pinot noir, especially from Burgundy, and this plays like that, producing elegant, nuanced, age worthy, earthy, haunting wines that make us happy. Severely limited each vintage. We called it L'Autre and outfitted it with a red label because it is truly an outlier from another state and another state of mind.