If the previous vintage (2023) was called the best value in American Pinot Noir (it was), we'll need to invent new words for the 2024.

Even typically low-key winemaker Erin Nuccio responded with "what a vintage!" when we asked for his take on 2024. We've consumed truckloads of this wine since we arrived in Oregon over 20 years ago, and there has never been a vintage so perfectly balanced as '24—it's magical! Succulent, pitch-perfect Pinot fruit sings with vivid freshness—this may be the signature of vintage '24. We've gone through a 6-pack of the '24 already because it just glows with deliciousness and floats with silkiness. 

The winery: Tasted blind by the owner of one of our distribution partners, his educated guess was expensive Burgundy.

Although the Willamette Valley Pinot Noir is our least expensive and largest production Pinot Noir, we put just as much of ourselves into it as our top wines, drawing from many of the same vineyards: Mahonia, Sojeau, Koosah, Cortell Rose, Illahe, Prophet, Jubilee, Keeler, and our own Torres Hill. We ferment in small lots and age in French oak barrels—in the 2024 vintage, the Willamette Valley Pinot Noir was aged for a full year, which helped create an especially cohesive and refined blend.