2022 Roosevelt

Intensely perfumed with black cherry, rose petal and hickory-smoke, the palate bursts with black currant and cherry cola alongside savory notes of graham cracker and cinnamon stick. Robust, velvety tannins are balanced by pretty notes of violet and coriander.

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The 2022 Elk Cove ‘Roosevelt’ Pinot Noir delivers plenty of salty minerals alongside juicy guava, red currant and wild strawberry fruit flavors, with orange zest and shades of bergamot on the palate. Fresh and neatly-textured, with bright underlying acidity, enjoy now and over the next ten to fifteen years. Drink 2025-2037
– Owen Bargreen (June 2025)

Elk Cove 2022 Roosevelt Pinot Noir – Estate grown, 30-year-old vines are the exclusive source for this reserve. Named for the Roosevelt elk that also gave the winery its moniker, this is deeply flavorful and grounded in blackberries and black cherries with highlights of dark chocolate. The tannins are ripe and polished, more evident here than in the other cuvées. Having waited an extra year to review these wines I am more convinced than ever that they need that time; earlier assessments may be premature and incomplete.
– Paul Gregutt (February 2026)

Polished and alluring, with elegantly layered flavors of raspberry and guava accented with forest floor, cinnamon and dusky spices as this builds tension toward fine-grained tannins. Drink now through 2033. 386 cases made.

– Wine Spectator (May 2025)

“The 2022 Pinot Noir Roosevelt is bursting with fragrant raspberry, lavender, wild fennel and mushrooms on the nose, revealing further nuances as it opens in the glass. The medium-bodied palate is detailed and spicy. It has a gently chalky texture, fireworks of fresh acidity and a long, nuanced finish.”
– Robert Parker Wine Advocate (July 2024)

Vintage

In VINTAGE 2022 Mother Nature kept us on our toes with unusual weather at each end of the growing season. A wet, cold spring led into a long, temperate summer followed by a very sunny fall that brought us much-needed ripening.

What a surprise to have snowfall on April 11th, our region’s latest significant snow since 1942! Most of our vines had not yet leafed out and their tight woolly buds were well-protected. However, frost damage did mean a smaller crop at our Clay Court Vineyard. Other vineyard sites set a healthy crop, which we thinned heavily to increase intensity and encourage ripening. August and September were unseasonably warm, but the nights remained cool, helping us retain varietal character. Worries of late-season botrytis (rot) meant extra passes of hand-work in the vineyard pulling leaves to improve sunlight penetration and airflow. Thankfully, October welcomed a long string of sunny days and just exactly the hang-time and ripening we needed to bring grape sugar (brix) to ideal levels.

Harvest began in late September, with most fruit harvested during two very intense mid-October weeks. Many of our blocks achieved peak ripeness at the same time, so we are very thankful for our incredible crew for all of the early morning picking sessions in the vineyard and long days in the cellar. Expect complex, fruit-forward wines from this vintage.

Vineyard

Roosevelt vineyard was planted in 1993 and has quickly become Elk Cove’s most prized vineyard site. A four-acre high-density (2100 vines per acre) planting situated just south of the winery on Willakenzie soils, Roosevelt’s south-facing hillside slopes to a steep precipice overlooking the magnificent Williams Canyon.

Roosevelt undergoes extensive pruning and cluster thinning to limit yields and maximize ripening to concentrate the fruit and is managed using completely organic practices. All of these elements combine to consistently produce one of Oregon’s finest Pinot Noirs.

Winemaking

All of Elk Cove’s delicate Pinot Noir fruit undergoes the same gentle handling through our gravity flow system. This allows us to achieve the elegance, texture and luscious quality that are the hallmarks of exquisite Pinot Noir.

This reserve level pinot noir is produced exclusively from grapes from our Roosevelt Vineyard. The wine is fermented in French oak and only the best barrels are selected to create what many consider Elk Cove’s finest Pinot Noir.

Viticultural & Enological Data

Vine Age 29, 8
Harvest Sugars 24.5 brix
pH 3.62
Vatting Fermentation in small open top steel fermenters. 10 months in 33% new French oak.
Cases Produced 396

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