Oregon's Finest Case

Oregon winery Lemelson always release their Jerome Pinot after an extended time in bottle because it is an annual selection of around 20 barrels of their finest and most ageworthy pinot. This 2018 has lovely red-berry fruit, spice and balanced cedar notes with very well-integrated fine tannins and fresh acidity on the finish.

Rajat Parr and Sashi Moorman are terroir-focused winemakers, here using Burgundy clones of chardonnay from a particularly rocky mid-slope section of the Seven Springs vineyard in Oregon. Fermented in French oak barrels (30% new) for 12 months, it has apple and yellow-plum fruit, with flint and toasted almond notes developing.

This chardonnay from Oregon, USA, has almond-skin, lemon-pith and nectarine fruit flavours and an elegant food-friendly style. Salem Wine Co. is a project managed by Evening Land Vineyards – the Oregon property of Rajat Parr and Sashi Moorman.

This is a spicy style of Oregon pinot, in 2020 benefitting from the fruit from the top single vineyards too. Perfumed with black pepper, prosciutto and herbal spice that is well balanced by the red-berry, almost savoury, tart fruit profile.

A precise and pure pinot blanc, with peach, apple and mineral flavours. A very elegant and enjoyable fine wine from Elk Cove Vineyards, one of Oregon's oldest and most respected wine producers and pioneers here since 1974. The estate now covers more than 250 acres on six separate vineyard sites in the Northern Willamette Valley, farmed with sustainability to the fore.

This Oregon pinot has a Burgundian accent, as it is the first wine released by Louis Jadot's new Oregon winery. Beautifully poised and complex this silky pinot has charming red-berry fruit and underlying spice, and subtlety that speaks to its fine wine position.