NICOLAS JAY - OWN ROOTED PINOT NOIR 750ML 2022

A delightful blend committed to some of the Willamette Valley's oldest, own-rooted sites, including Nysa, Hyland Estate and the Nicolas Jay estate Bishop Creek site. It's a gorgeous Pinot Noir, with an effusive nose of candied red fruits and sweet, smoky rose petals. There is ample forest floor as freshly turned earth melds with sweet bright cherries, a squeeze of blood orange and loads of dried wild herbs which deliver a savoury finish. There's a silken texture that I often find in the own-rooted vine Pinot Noir from the Willamette. It's a lovely wine.

The 2022 Pinot Noir Own-Rooted opens with a spice box bouquet, blending cedar shavings and cinnamon sticks with cloves and dried black cherries. It’s soothingly round and pliant with ripe red berry fruits, building saline minerality as an air of rosy inner florals amasses toward the close. It tapers off with tension, pleasantly tart and gently tannic, leaving a hint of blood orange that slowly fades. Don’t be surprised if the Own-Rooted shuts down in bottle for a short time. It’s worth following.