Ever wondered about your preferred style of Pinot Noir? This week, our Tasting Flight is your guide to discovering your favorite, featuring FOUR 2018 Oregon Pinot Noirs from the exceptional Boedecker Cellars.

Boedecker Cellars, a husband-and-wife operation founded by Stewart and Athena in 2003, is dedicated to crafting small-lot Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs. In August, we had the pleasure of tasting through the 2018 vintages with Stewart during his brief visit to Charlotte. We were all impressed by the precision and distinctiveness of each wine in the current vintage.

Prepare to be pleasantly surprised by how wonderfully these wines are currently tasting! Think of them as inspired by Burgundy, with a unique Oregon signature showcasing the Willamette Valley AVAs!

The $28 Tasting Flight will begin with the Stewart Pinot Noir that is red-fruit driven on the nose & palate, while the Athena PN has layers of black-fruit given its Dijon clone composition. The last two are both single-vineyard bottlings that showcase two special properties - one in the northwest corner of the Willamette and the other from the Yamhill-Carlton AVA.

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For details on the featured Pinot Noirs, please continue reading below.

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Cheers!

Mark

Stewart & Athena Boedecker

Stewart & Athena, husband and wife team, founded Boedecker Cellars in 2003 and after crafting wines at Oregon’s first shared-use winery in Carlton, Oregon, they were able to build their own sustainable urban winery in a refurbished warehouse in the heart of Northwest Portland – just a stone’s throw from downtown and less than an hour from their prized vineyards. Dedicated to fine details in winemaking, when you visit Boedecker Cellars Winery and Tasting Room you will likely encounter Stewart and Athena in the cellar tending their award-winning wines.

Stewart is a lover of the classic Oregon Pinot Noir, aromatically brilliant, full of red fruit flavors, subtle notes of bramble and olive wood, complex and focused with structure to age indefinitely. His fascination with and passion for Oregon Pinot Noir began when in 1992 Stewart made wine while at Cornell University. In Oregon, he later volunteered in exchange for knowledge at several well-established Oregon wineries, enrolled in wine-making classes at UC Davis and Chemeketa CC and eventually founded Boedecker Cellars with Athena in 2003. While Stewart still works at his day job, his passion for Pinot remains as solid as the day he first began.

Athena loves the depth and intensity that interplay with the complexity and transparency in Pinot Noir. She too studied wine-making at UC Davis and Chemeketa CC although mostly she loves to climb the barrels, stir the wines, and drive the forklift. A native Portlander with a Greek heritage; to say wine-making is her passion falls short; today wine-making is her identity.

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Boedecker Cellars

'Stewart' Pinot Noir 2018 

Willamette Valley, Oregon

$47 btl/retail

VARIETAL/WINEMAKING: 100% Pinot Noir crafted in Stewart's preferred style which is red-fruited, full of acidity and soft tannins reflective of Pommard and Wädenswil clones.

TASTING NOTES: Shimmering ruby-red. spice-tinged cherry and boysenberry scents are complemented by suggestions of cola, musky flowers and freshly turned earth. Sweet and focused on the palate, offering juicy red and blue fruit and spice cake flavors that deepen through the back half. Dusty tannins provide grip to the long, spicy finish, which leaves a bitter cherry note behind

Boedecker Cellars

'Athena' Pinot Noir 2018 

Willamette Valley, Oregon

$47 btl/retail

VARIETAL/WINEMAKING: 100% Pinot Noir crafted in Athena's style which is black-fruited, heartier with more tannins and spice rooted in Dijon clones).

TASTING NOTES: Ripe, spice-tinged red and predominantly dark berries, candied flowers, mocha and smoky minerals on the perfumed nose. Chewy and focused on the palate, offering concentrated black raspberry, bitter cherry, vanilla and lavender pastille flavors that turn sweeter as the wine opens up. Shows fine definition and a repeating cherry note on the persistent finish, which is firmed by gently gripping tannins.

Boedecker Cellars

Cherry Grove Vineyard

Pinot Noir 2018 

Tualatin Hills AVA, Oregon

$60 btl/retail

VARIETAL/WINEMAKING: 100% Pinot Noir

TASTING NOTE: Deep, shimmering red. Spice-laced cherry and black raspberry scents show fine clarity and pick up hints of musky earth and pungent flowers with aeration. Juicy and focused on the palate, offering bitter cherry, dark berry and spicecake flavors that take a sweeter turn as the wine stretches out. Closes taut and impressively long, with resonating spiciness, well-knit tannins and a lingering hint of cola.

Boedecker Cellars

Hirschy Vineyard Pinot Noir 2018 

Yamhill-Carlton AVA, Oregon

$60 btl/retail

VARIETAL/WINEMAKING:  100% Pinot Noir

TASTING NOTE: Deep magenta. Pungent, spice-tinged aromas of cherry, black raspberry, violet and a hint of licorice. Shows very good depth as well as energy to the sweet cherry cola, dark berry and spice cake flavors, which take on a smoky nuance as the wine opens up. Slowly mounting tannins add grip to a long, focused finish that strongly echoes the cherry and spice notes.

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