Elevée Estate Pinot Noir Dundee Hills 2021
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94 points Wine Spectator: "Plush and generous, yet structured at the core, with seductive cherry and raspberry flavors accented with toasty cinnamon and orange peel as this glides on the supple finish toward refined tannins. Drink now through 2031. 325 cases made."
Always our Goldilocks Pinot of Tom's four single vineyards, we're suckers for the wonderful elegance it delivers, from the first scent—the kind of Pinot aromas you want to smell all day long—to the effortlessly long finish. That delivery is ultra silky and seamless and in the remarkable 2021 vintage, adds an extra handful of sun-ripened raspberries to its succulent cherry heart. Their estate vineyard always shows a beguilingly attractive X factor—think violets and tea meet tobacco and orange. This dude has remarkable staying power expressed in such a graceful way. -Marcus
Tom and his wife, France, purchased what was Archery Summit founder Gary Andrus’ A&G Vineyard, which provided wine for Andrus’ Gypsy Dancer label. If you’ve visited Ayoub, you’ve seen the source of this wine; Élevée is next door to Mo Ayoub’s estate vineyard/winery/house, nestled in a perfect pocket of the Dundee Hills.
Élevée is French for elevated. In ballet, an élevée is a movement in which a dancer rises up high onto the balls of the feet, or all the way up to full-pointe. In our youth, a passion for mountaineering’s elevated places inspired us to move to the West Coast, where we ultimately found our calling. In Oregon, the very best vineyard sites are located on elevated slopes, with the improved angle of incidence of the sun’s rays, where cold dense air drains downhill, displacing the warmer air which is shifted up to the higher elevations where these vineyards are located.
With a degree from UC Davis, Tom Fitzpatrick and wife France began their journey in 2002 with Hunter’s Wines in New Zealand, Pine Ridge Winery in Napa Valley, and Domaine Hubert Lignier in Morey-St-Denis. They arrived in Oregon in 2007, when Tom became the Associate Winemaker for Hamacher and then Winemaker/General Manager for Alloro Vineyard.
Their vision became a reality in 2008 when they purchased an extremely high-density four-acre vineyard in the Dundee Hills, planted in 1998 by Archery Summit founder Gary Andrus. They re-named it Élevée Vineyard.
Tom and France are winegrowers—they believe wine is equally shaped by decisions in the vineyard and in the cellar. They seek to capture purity of fruit, allowing each wine to express the unique personality of each site and distinct influence of each vintage.
While they began with one site (their estate vineyard), they’ve added three other distinct sites: Bjornson in the Eola-Amity Hills, Meredith Mitchell in McMinnville, and Madrona Hill in the Chehalem Mountains.
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