Labeled Willamette but located in the Chehalem Mountain AVA, this single-vineyard Pinot Noir from Lemelson captures a tight, spicy, herbal facet of the grape. It’s almost salty, with a strong pine resin flavor running down its spine, but in a very attractive way. This is distinctive, perhaps not for everyone, but extremely well made and terroir-driven. As the wine breathes open, beautiful berry flavors rise to the front of the palate.——P.G.(7/1/2009)—— 91

This was Eric Lemelson’s first planted vineyard and it’s now beginning to show its stuff. Clearly Oregonian in its opening mix of leaf, root, herb and earth scents, it rounds up into some pleasing cherry/plum fruit flavors that resonate as a very pretty core of sweet fruit. Persistent and concentrated, it’s still tight and compact but promises great things to come. ——P.G.(5/1/2006)—— 92

Big, ripe fruit flavors show blackberry, blueberry and black cherry, hot and unstructured. Burnt toast and coffee flavors suggest over-charred barrels, and it makes for a heavy, tannic wine. ——W.E.(11/1/2004)—— 87