Pouring a pale ruby hue, the 2021 Pinot Noir The Eyrie is fantastically detailed and reveals layered aromas of fresh cardamom, rose petal, and wild raspberry. The palate is tension-packed, with a linear feel and ripe red-berried fruit, but it’s more about its mineral and gravelly texture, with mouthwatering salinity and balanced fruit throughout. It also offers a touch of toasty cedar on the finish. It’s coiled at this stage and will benefit from another 2 or more years in bottle to start to show its best. Drink 2025-2035.
96 points, Audrey Frick, Jeb Dunnuck (Sep 2023)
‘The Eyrie always brings an earthen character’, says winemaker Jason Lett and true to form, this Pinot from 56-year-old vines shows forest floor, garden soil, moss and deep blue fruits on the aromatics. Tasting the Willamette Valley's original Pinot Noir is a special experience for a wine lover, and this wine lives up to the billing. A great depth of blue berry fruits alongside a blood orange zest is wrapped around a stony, mineral-laden core. Sous bois, crushed stone and five-star anise, announce the finish of this wine that is just getting started and has 15 or 20 years to come into its own.
96 points, Clive Pursehouse, Decanter (May 2023)
The 2021 Pinot Noir The Eyrie's initial flintiness takes plenty of time to give way to deeper scents of cranberry, pipe tobacco, pepper, bergamot and charcuterie. The medium-bodied palate is luxuriously silky and seamless, with a latent core of spicy fruit and a long, savory finish. It's youthfully coiled and deserves five or more years in the cellar to unwind.
95+ points, Erin Brooks, Wine Advocate (Jul 2024)
This is a complex and flavorful pinot with cherries, raspberries, mushrooms, dried lavender, rosemary and dried spices on the nose. Some savory olive and meaty hints, too. It’s medium-bodied, with very fine tannins. Powerful and firm. From own-rooted vines planted in 1965 through 1974. 446 cases. Drink after 2024.
95 points, James Suckling (Apr 2023)
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