Soft pink in the glass, this wine opens with aromatics of fresh apricot, orange peel, and thyme, leading into a lively, juicy palate of wild strawberry and raspberry, finishing with notes of blood orange pith and hibiscus tea.
The 2025 vintage was a high quality and accelerated year that made us thankful for the dual safeguards of diverse vineyard sites and an experienced crew.
Overall, the growing season was steady and uneventful. We had ideal spring weather during budbreak and bloom led to a good fruit-set. Reasonably sized clusters meant below-average crop levels that required very little thinning. It was a moderately early summer with a few heat spells and light rains in August. During the mild September, ripening progressed at a steady pace with very low disease pressure and very few hungry birds. Harvest would come quickly.
At Elk Cove, we were able to extend harvest to a very full five weeks, allowing for additional hang-time and lessening the strain on our crew and cellar. The varied elevations, aspects, and clonal selections of our vineyards help space out ripening, so we could take our time, continuing to bring in fruit long after many of our neighbors were finished. We brought in clean fruit with great concentration due to small berries, small clusters and fewer seeds than average. Those were some very intense five weeks, so we were very thankful for our experienced vineyard crew, several of whom joined us in the cellar for harvest along with winemaking students from Germany, Brazil, Massachusetts and Portland. It was a difficult but rewarding harvest.
Expect precocious 2025 vintage wines with excellent quality and concentration alongside lush, ripe fruit flavors.
The fruit for this all Pinot Noir Rosé is hand-harvested from our estate vineyard sites in the Willamette Valley. For the Rosé, we choose both young and old vines from higher elevation vineyards on their own rootstock. These give us full aromatic and flavor development as well as great freshness of fruit within a framework of lower alcohol.
Pinot Noir fruit for our Rosé is hand-harvested very ripe and gently whole bunch pressed with limited skin crushing, which makes virtually a “white Pinot Noir”. The wine is fermented cool in stainless steel tanks. Then carefully selected lots of fermented red Pinot Noir juice is blended back for color and texture. Our Pinot Noir Rosé is finished completely dry.
An absolute beautiful wine, we adore.
This has been my favorite Rose’ for years! I visited Elk Cove last summer which after being there and seeing the vineyards makes the wine even more amazing! Thank you for this great wine!
Got this bottle as a house warming gift and we are hooked! So smooth, so flavorful, perfect with dinner. Love!
This wine is the best! Received it as a birthday gift and was surprised by it!
This wine is so delicious! Received it as a birthday gift and was surprised by it!
Amazing wine! I will buy this again!
Have enjoyed this wine in past, and going back to New Hampshire for the summer means I need to order anew to avoid disappointment of missing having it available for summer enjoyment. It is a superb sipping wine on warm summer nights!
Really love your wines. I don’t drink very much red wine anymore, but I think your Pinot noir is terrific and always have it for guests. Also love the Pinot Blanc, the Pinot Gris, and the Rose’. I drink wine mostly for fun, at my advanced age of 82, and I find all the previously mentioned wines To be totally sound and beautifully made. Thank you.
I sure wish I would have purchased more of this very special Rosé. Looking forward to next year!
The rosé is special in the fact that it is crisp and dry and perfect for a warm day. Whenever I serve, my friends all ask about the wine and comment how much they enjoy! Cheers!
So good!! A soft Rose, not too dry, not too sweet, perfect balance!!!
I like a rosé in the summer but always searching for something not fruity and sweet. This has some body and yet is light and refreshing at the same time. Beautifully balanced, well done!
My wife, friends and I have been drinking this Rose for several years and have found it to be consistently lovely during all worm to hot weather conditions. For the quality, it is very well priced. It is neither particularly dry nor lush, presenting itself as appropriate to complement most foods. Beautiful mouthfeel. Gorgeous color.
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