The 2024 vintage here in the Willamette Valley was a winemaker’s dream: well-paced with idyllic conditions for cool climate vineyards.
The growing season started and ended cool and mild, with short heat-spikes in mid-summer. Winter and spring were wetter than average, giving the vines a head start underground. Budbreak in mid-April was followed by steady growth into June, when rains during bloom naturally lowered yields for us, lessening the need for thinning fruit. July and August were punctuated by several heat-spikes. Thankfully, the hottest temperatures occurred during the green phase of fruit maturation, while clusters are sunburn resistant. We were thankful for the efforts of our local fire department who snuffed out a couple of local fires near Hagg Lake in Gaston. Toward the end of the growing season, a late August drizzle left our vines clean and refreshed, ripening a moderate quantity of very beautiful fruit. We looked forward to harvest with keen anticipation.
The 2024 harvest had a slower pace than typical. With the exception of some early sparkling wine picks, all fruit came in over the course of 40 days. We brought in our first Pinot the second week of September and harvest continued at a steady beat, allowing us to give each vineyard block and fermentation our optimal attention. After a very mild October with plenty of sunshine and wonderful diurnal swings in temperature, the first cold snap of November brought so much cold air, the cellar required extra heating during our white wine fermentations. The timing of harvest was close to our historic average, but within a longer window contributing to great hang-time.
Expect concentrated, fruit-forward wines with great complexity. We are hopeful that the 2024 will come to be considered a classic Willamette Valley vintage.
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!!!
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