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Once again the 2018 Luminous Hills Vineyard Pinot Noir is the most aromatically expressive wine in the cellar, exotic sage, melon, crème de cassis and dry stones. This remarkable site gave us perfectly lignified stems in this vintage which were included in the fermentation bringing an open-knit life and lift to the silky fruit on the palate.
190 cases produced
$120 per bottle (1.5L)
The 2017 Audeant Pinot Noir is a meticulously arranged blend of choice lots from Nysa, Luminous Hills, and Carlisle’s Crest vineyards. Aromatically the wine presents clear bright red fruit, bramble and warm toasted spice. On the palate tart juicy red raspberry fruit, like the hard candy on your grandmother’s coffee table, buoy the fine tannin, black tea and persistent finish.
435 cases produced
$100 per bottle (1.5L)
The 2017 Luminous Hills Vineyard Pinot Noir is limpid and abundantly aromatic. Clean and purely driven as the rain that we hurriedly shielded the fruit from with tarps as we picked. It has the framework of tannin and acid that lend to long life in the bottle, with an overflowing core of red and blue fruit, belying its combination of ancient sedimentary and volcanic soils.
230 cases produced
$120 per bottle (1.5L)
The 2017 Nysa Vineyard Pinot Noir comes from 30 year old, own rooted vines, in the heart of the Dundee hills. Similarly red fruited but more classic Dundee cherry, soaringly floral aromatics of blood orange and iron rich soil, the wine has more of everything, acid, fruit, earth, and spice. The wine is intense, but intensely lovely.
190 cases produced
$150 per bottle (1.5L)
The 2016 Audeant Pinot Noir revealed itself to us over the course of its élevage, as truly a vinous extension of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Tasting a barrel we’d say to ourselves, “well that smells like Oregon.” What seems like it should be true, is often profoundly exciting when it is. Clear, rain-fed streams filtered through mossy thickets of bramble and life-filled earth. Soaking and lingering red fruit buoyed with the sappy green frame of its stems. Firm, dense and a bit brooding as the vintage dictated, but full of the energy and joy that was poured over it during its life in our cellar. Poised and ever-expanding, its best days are ahead of it.
279 cases produced
$100 per bottle (1.5L)
Produced in very small quantities is the 2016 Nysa Vineyard Pinot Noir. The vines here are 30 years old, producing tiny clusters of beautiful fruit. It is humbling to walk the rows where the signs on the end posts still hang like a trophy room of Oregon’s winemaking history: Bethel Heights, Panther Creek, Ken Wright, Bergstrom, Antica Terra. We are honored to write our own chapter into the history of this place. Our Nysa Pinot Noir is surging with aromatics of black cherry, hard candy, warm spices and the exhalations of ancient decomposed volcanoes, all humming along a frame of expansive limpid tannin. The wine is dense and tightly coiled. Open for a few hours or a whole day and it sings, boding well for a long life of development in bottle.
137 cases produced
$150 per bottle (1.5L)
SHIPPING TO
Allocations are limited to ensure that we can get the wines in the hands of those who want them. If you would like to receive a larger allocation, if your state is not listed, or you are purchasing within the state of Oregon, please contact us directly at 773.255.1184 or info@audeantwines.com to place an order. Our small team will coordinate shipping with an eye on the temperatures en route.
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