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Welcome to the OPNC
Make purchases without joining, or join to receive monthly shipments of Oregon's best stuff. The Oregon Pinot Noir Club is located in the Center of Oregon Wine Country. Travelling frequently to barrel-taste with winemakers, we seek out and acquire the top Oregon wines, including single-vineyard bottlings, special cuvees, and limited-release wines that are often not available outside of Oregon.
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 2006 Scott Paul "La Paulee" Pinot Noir
Click here to read more. WAS $39 NOW $28 MORE THAN 28% OFF! This is a new-world style pinot with all the markers that make such wines desirable: Lush, fruit-centric, open-knit, luxuriously textured, suave, silky, hedonistic - heck, I could go on for paragraphs (and often do). But the simple fact is that this wine is all about the fruit, and all about early drinkability. Boom. That's it. Toss in a straw and wallow.
Even better, it's easily comparable to wines of a similar style that cost $...More
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 2007 Patricia Green Cellars “Ana Vineyard” Pinot Noir
Click here to read more. Another gorgeous, early-drinking ’07! This wine pumps out tons of fresh, juicy and lively flavors that are almost too complex to codify – think fresh, wild-berry compote. The acidity is bright, that jazzes up the fruit and helps extend fruit persistence into a very long finish. This is very appealing, and hard to put down. It’s also about the only “high-end” Patty wine left from the vintage. Highly recommended.More
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 2007 Shea Pinot Noir Estate $48
Click here to read more. Wow! This is a pure fruit play, with scads of creamy, rich plum and black cherry flavors that wash across the palate. There’s enough acidity to keep it balanced, and enough pretty oak to integrate all the parts and bring them together. There’s no tannin, though, and this drinks exceptionally well now – the texture is very supple, even voluptuous without being “fruit bomb”-like. Hold your ’05 and ’06 Shea bottlings, and drink this now.More
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 Arterberry Maresh Pinot Noir "Maresh Vineyard" 2007
Click here to read more. Bob's Top Pick of 2007 So Far!!
I just had this again a couple of days ago. After a few months of bottle age, this baby is just singing right now. It has a beautiful sense of terroir, with excellent fruit density supported by impressive minerality and perfect acidity. This goes down like Grand Cru, and is awesome now.
To be sure, Beaux Freres and Patty Green have ‘07s that also rock my world, but I am compelled to choose the Arterberry Maresh as the &ld...More
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 Beaux Frères Pinot Noir The Beaux Frères Vineyard 2006
Click here to read more. WS 93 Points! Now, this is a good score. But I’m a bit disappointed. I think it’s worthy of a 95, and I suspect Harvey tasted this some months ago, while it was really tight. Decant this wine and drink it over two days or more to see the development as it airs out. There’s a fleshy, forward component, but there’s also deep, deep structure for cellaring. Somehow I’ve found the fortitude to drink a half-dozen of these over the past six weeks.
Here are the Wine Spect...More
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 Beaux Freres Pinot Noir Estate 2007
Click here to read more. Exquisite!
BEAUX FRERES SPECIAL: 1% off per bottle, up to 12% off any mixed or whole case! Special Ends March 31.
The first time I met Beaux Freres co-owner and winemaker Mike Etzell, it was in 1993. We sat at a formica table in a ramshackle pink house, and he poured the ’91 and ’92 pinots for me. The price on the superb ’92 was a whopping $30 retail! I ordered two cases, even though I was aghast at the aggressive pricing. “Is that it?” he asked, obviously expecti...More
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 Beaux Freres Pinot Noir Upper Terrace 2007
Click here to read more. Structured, deep -- needs time. This will be an April Reserve Club selection.
BEAUX FRERES SPECIAL: 1% off per bottle, up to 12% off any mixed or whole case! Special Ends March 31.
Here’s a description of the vintage from the winery literature:
Even though our 2007 growing season began with a cool, damp spring the flowering and fruit set were very good. In May and June the weather began to warm and July saw several minor heat spikes. August and September weighed...More
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 Beaux Freres Pinot Noir Willamette Valley 2007
Click here to read more. A blend of excellent barrels -- this will be a World Class selection in April.
BEAUX FRERES SPECIAL: 1% off per bottle, up to 12% off any mixed or whole case! Special Ends March 31.
Here’s a description of the vintage from the winery literature:
Even though our 2007 growing season began with a cool, damp spring the flowering and fruit set were very good. In May and June the weather began to warm and July saw several minor heat spikes. August and September we...More
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Evening Lands Chardonnay La Source 2007
Click here to read more. $98 per bottle I know, don’t even start with me. Oregon chardonnay, particularly at this price level? Don’t think Oregon. Think, Puligny Montrachet made by Dominique Lafon. Only 12.8% alcohol with a low pH, this wine has a stunning palate of crisp green apples, minerals and citrus balanced with piercing acidity. It was oak barrel fermented -- there is a hint of creaminess on the palate -- but it’s NOT an oaky chardonnay by any means. The finish lingers for l...More
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Evening Lands Pinot Noir Estate 2007
Click here to read more. $48 per bottle This is of a style lovers of the Seven Springs vineyard will recognize. It has intense, dark fruit with a bit of brambly character, a hint of ripe tannin and the all-important mineral character. It’s a terroir driven wine equal to the best of the ’07 vintage that I’ve had so far, and priced in the same ballpark. It shares the Burgundian sensibilities of Evening Lands more lofty wines, and exhibits the same overall high quality. Approachable no...More
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Evening Lands Pinot Noir La Source 2007
Click here to read more. $98 per bottle A blend of Pommard and various Dijon Clones, this wine exhibits the more rambunctious style of pinot noir, with sweet and sappy dark red fruit wrapped in an richly textured package. Thanks to the strong streak of mineral flavor and some bright acidity, however, this wine never veers out of control and remains fresh, pure and complex on the palate. Again, the finish is superb as is the overall balance. There is no hint whatsoever of ’07 “lightness&r...More
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 Evening Lands Pinot Noir Summum 2007
Click here to read more. $158 per bottle, 81.5 cases madeThe pinnacle of the Evening Lands pinot portfolio, and made in large proportion from self-rooted, old-vine Pommard clone located at the top of the hill (the name is ‘summit’ in French). The wine possesses an extraordinary and suave texture, intense minerality married to piercing and pure fruit flavors, and a remarkable finish that seemed to never end. The wine simply drenches the palate, while remaining exquisitely balanced, and the...More
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Road's End Pinot Noir 2007
Click here to read more. $45 / bottleMore
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trip rolls through a Wild and Scenic River corridor.
It is a magnificent raft trip that draws river
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The trip is food and wine focused, and will feature
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