PZ's Wine of the Week
Bergstrom 'Cumberland Reserve' Pinot Noir 2016
Willamette Valley, Oregon
Available by the Bottle
The Cumberland Reserve is our longest standing label, first created in 2001, and is a blend of our finest Pinot Noir barrels from our Biodynamic farmed estate vineyards in the Dundee Hills, Chehalem Mountains, Ribbon Ridge and Yamhill Carlon AVA's. The philosophical purpose of this wine is to express the regional identity of the Willamette Valley as expressed by Bergstrom winemaking style. It is always a balanced wine that showcases our valley's fresh fruit character, spiciness, and earthiness of our Pinot Noirs.
Tasting Notes
The 2016 Cumberland Reserve is dark ruby in color and is very old school Oregonian with bright crunchy fresh fruit, earthy intensity, a reductive flintiness, mushroom-laden and an almost Barbaresco-esque aromatic profile with dried herbs, flowers, meat and pipe tobacco. It has succulent acidity and really fine tannins and the aromatic complexity of this wine unfurls continuously in the glass building in seriousness and deliciousness with each minute that it is open.
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