Bergström Vineyard Pinot Noir, Dundee Hills
Vinous
96
"The 2021 Pinot Noir The Bergström Vineyard is dark and brooding, enticing with a meaty blend of savory black cherry and cedar shavings complicated by flowery underbrush and a lifting hint of camphor. This is texturally thrilling, with ripe wild berry fruit depths guided by brisk acidity, taking on a saline edge and hints of licorice toward the close. It's potent and long with gritty tannins. A concentration of tart blackberry and spice pinch at the cheeks, yet the mouth is left watering for more as a salty flourish carries on."
The Wine Advocate
94 Points
“Savory aromas of flint, dried herbs, woodsmoke and charcuterie with a core of dried black cherries and cranberries. The palate is somewhat rustic with chalky tannins and loads of savory, woodsmoke character. Finishes with a hint of bitterness.”
Wine & Spirits
94 Points
“The Bergström family’s first vineyard is now 24 years old, and in the glass you can almost taste the health of the vines—in the fruit’s exuberant expression, its persistent freshness, and the volcanic lift of its texture. Whole-clusters in the fermentation have given the fruit a floral, slightly licorice-scented back note, lending complexity and layering. The texture is tensile and firm, the wine diaphanous in its fruit expression. For tea-smoked duck.”
jamessuckling.com
94 Points
“Olives, dark cherries, rust, grilled thyme and wild strawberries on the nose. Firm, yet sleek and silky tannins here, with supple texture and delicious earthy minerality to the fresh berry fruit.”