Tower Pinot Noir

The Tower is our true north. We gather our inspirations and map out our dreams and goals. We hope to capture something that inspires us, and that we want to share. Vintners often overuse certain keywords to describe their wines. We are probably guilty too. But this wine demands specific terms of adornment. Elegant, playful yet coy. A keeper, a drinker. A convincing argument for the doubtful. This is a wine of its time and place. Our Pinot Noir draws fruit sourced from select vineyards set in the Willamette Valley AVA. A single blend is created each year to showcase the nuances of the vintage through the balance between distinctly different sites.

2015 Vintage

Sweet baking spices and Mirabelle plums commingle with salted caramel and crushed autumn leaves. On the palate it asserts wild raspberry and fresh bark dust, balancing fruit and oak tannin into a well rounded experience. The acidity plays in the background, never demanding the spotlight, instead elevating the fruit, texture and weight.

520 cases | 13% alc. | Menefee + Fennwood Vineyards | Yamhill-Carlton AVA | LIVE certified | Native ferments | 18 months élevage | 20% New French Oak

• We just opened up a bottle of this a few nights ago, to make sure it was a worthy offer. I always get a bit excited and nervous opening up our older vintages. Day one, this wine was sublime, beautifully elegant (more than I remember), demure at first, but the coy fruit became more boisterous with each sip. On day two, the power of the vintage showed a bit more clearly. I say Drink and Hold!