The Eyrie Vineyards - Pinot Noir The Eyrie Dundee Hills 2021 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $95.00
| Producer | The Eyrie Vineyards |
| Country | USA |
| Region | Oregon |
| Subregion | Willamette Valley |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Sku | 8453 |
| Size | 750ml |
Jeb Dunnuck: 96 Points
Pouring a pale ruby hue the 2021 Pinot Noir The Eyrie is fantastically detailed and reveals layered aromas of fresh cardamom rose petal and wild raspberry. The palate is tension-packed with a linear feel and ripe red-berried fruit but it?s more about its mineral and gravelly texture with mouthwatering salinity and balanced fruit throughout. It also offers a touch of toasty cedar on the finish. It?s coiled at this stage and will benefit from another 2 or more years in bottle to start to show its best. Drink 2025-2035. The 2021 releases from The Eyrie were tasted at the winery and tasting room in McMinnville with owner and winemaker Jason Lett. In addition to producing some of the benchmark Pinot Gris Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in the Willamette Valley they produce a wide range from Trousseau to Pinot Meunier to explore. Having only tasted out of barrel the previous year I was especially impressed with the range of 2021 Pinot Noir from the estate. Annual production is at approximately 10000 cases using 95% estate-grown fruit.
James Suckling: 95 Points
This is a complex and flavorful pinot with cherries raspberries mushrooms dried lavender rosemary and dried spices on the nose. Some savory olive and meaty hints too. It?s medium-bodied with very fine tannins. Powerful and firm. From own-rooted vines planted in 1965 through 1974. 446 cases. Drink after 2024.
Wine Spectator: 93 Points
Graceful and elegantly multilayered with delicate cherry and cranberry flavors laced with green tea and dusky spices. Ends with refined tannins. Drink now through 2031. 443 cases made.
Vinous: 93 Points
The 2021 Pinot Noir The Eyrie is remarkably pretty wafting up with a bouquet of sweet herbs and cola giving way to wild strawberries. Textures of pure silk glide across the palate displaying a lovely inner sweetness and vividly fresh red berries. Juicy acidity further enhances the 2021?s lively personality finishing long and perfumed with the slightest tug of fine tannin. This Pinot Noir aims to please and goes down almost too easily yet at just 13% abv. A real darling. - By Eric Guido on January 2024 The Eyrie Vineyards Pinots are some of the clearest interpretations of the variety in Oregon. Each wine communicates a sense of place and varietal purity before anything else. While incredibly easy to appreciate in their youth the wines also have a track record of maturing beautifully over the course of decades. Jason Lett?s 2021s are no different. The wines are crisp and refreshing vividly fruit-focused gently tannic and full of tension and energy. I highly recommend tasting at least one bottle now to enjoy the primary fruit while laying the rest down to appreciate over time. That said the star of the show was the 2018 South Block. Frankly the complexity in this glass is off the charts although slightly veiled by its youthful exuberance. No collector of Oregon Pinot Noir should pass up the chance to add it to their cellar.
