Beaux Freres Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2022
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Wine Spectator
Graceful and detailed, with lilting raspberry and cherry flavors that unfurl to reveal fresh violet, cinnamon and orange peel accents as this builds richness and complexity toward polished tannins. Drink now through 2032. 3,163 cases made.
The 2022 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley has layered aromas of pomegranate, cranberry and blackberry with nuances of cardamom, mushrooms and earth. The medium-bodied palate is silky and seamless. It has a concentrated core of spice- and earth-laced fruit and a long, nuanced finish. It’s dangerously easy to drink without sacrificing nuance.
Eight vineyards comprise the Beaux Frères Willamette Valley bottling, with 8% coming from the estate vineyards. It was a vintage that started cool and then finished quickly. The Beaux Frères estate was very impacted by the frost, so much of the fruit is coming from secondary buds. The Willamette Valley bottling shows such freshness and bright fruit with tart cranberry aromatics balanced by a squeeze of blood orange and dusty red brambles. The finish is tart and fresh, with mint framing the delicate red berries, violet florals and tart Montmorency cherries. Delightful.
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Beaux Freres Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2023
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Supple and elegantly complex, with nuanced flavors of raspberry and cherry framed by hints of forest floor, duskyspices and cinnamon as this gathersrichness toward polished tannins. Drink now through 2035.
From three vineyard sources, two that Mikey planted in 2016 for family friends, Star Mooring and Doration and 60% comes from the Beaux Freres estate site, young vines, planted in 2021. A combination of opulence from the non-estate site marries with angularity and freshness, bottled in August 2024, just before harvest. Built to be approachable and speak to the house style, it’s showing effusive rose petals with explosive red fruits, brilliant textures, cranberries and blood orange, bright mineral salinity and freshness with great pops of berry fruits.
This shows spicy and walnuty character to its red fruit, with dried citrus peel and crushed stone. Medium-bodied,juicy, racy, vivid and electrifying. Minerally and agile. Drink now or hold.
Made from around 60% estate fruit, the 2023 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley has slowly opening scentsof redcherry, strawberry, lavender, gravel dust and mossy bark. The medium-bodied palate offers crunchy red fruit and latentspicy accents. It’s framed by fine, dusty tannins and juicy acidity and has a long finish.
Pouring a bright ruby red color, the 2023 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley has a fruity and savory profile, with notesof ripe wild berries, light gamey richness, purple flowers, and forest earth. Medium-bodied, it has a plushness but alovely lightweight feelon the palate. Drink over the coming 12-15 years. For this cuvée, they conducted small trialswith a small part of the whole cluster, involving about 5% in this vintage.
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