The 2009 Pinot Noir Tuenge Vineyard offers exceptional complexity, balance, and density for the vintage. Layered, seamless, and long, it will drink nicely through 2021 if not longer. Erath is once again a name to be reckoned with in the Willamette Valley wine scene as the investment by the Chateau Ste. Michelle Wine Group is starting to pay dividends. Tel. (800) 456-6789; www.erath.com

The Tuenge (tongue-GEE) Vineyard was originally Chehalem Mountain Vineyard, first planted almost 40 years ago. A complex nose of spiced plums and cherries opens into a fruit-laden midpalate, adding blackberries and a thin vein of citrus. Firmly tannic, this precise, sculpted effort brings a refined structure, with just a whiff of volatility.——P.G.(3/1/2012)—— 92