Wine Spectator Top 100 Pinots
Today's Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines of the World 2021 includes a couple of our favorite Willamette Valley wineries perched pretty darn close to the top: #14 for Alexana and #22 for Arterberry Maresh. Congratulations to both! Now time to get shopping.
$54.95 in any 12 bottle or Build a Case order ($59.95 regular)
#14 in Wine Spectator's Top 100 Wines of the World 2021, 94 points: "This vibrant red is coiled with tension, offering dynamic raspberry and blueberry flavors that gather notes of spiced cinnamon and orange oil, building toward medium-grained tannins. Drink now through 2030."
Us: This is our kind of way to announce the release of a new vintage! Arriving next week, fresh off its Top 100 trophy, this beauty is already singing.
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$36.95 in any 12 bottle or Build a Case order ($39.95 regular)
#22 in Wine Spectator's Top 100 Wines of the World 2021, 93 points: "Structured yet elegantly layered, with pretty violet, raspberry and spiced tea accents that build tension and toward polished, medium-grained tannins. Drink now through 2029."
Us: Let's be clear–in the Willamette Valley this vine age (planted between 1970 and 1983), this level of excellence and elegance, this price are three things that come together only in the cellar of Jim Arterberry Maresh. This 2018 is strutting–so graceful in feel with such delicious fruit to sink into. 65% Maresh and 35% Weber vineyards, 100% dynamite.