Oregon Wine Tasting
Le Petit Bijou
Friday, Feb 17th 4-6pm
*Our original location- 103 North Side Square*
$20 Per Person (Wine Tasting Only)
Reservations Requested. Call 256-964-7980
Presented by special guest,
Robert Gunn of Pinnacle Imports
2021 Antiquum Farm Daisy Pinot Gris, Oregon $35.99
Our daughter, Daisy, has a ferocious passion for chickens. When she was five, her burgeoning flock escaped and overran the vineyard. This happy accident became a defining moment for our farming, as we embraced the hens' natural inclination to scratch out weeds and balance insect populations. The 2021 Daisy has a bracing framework of acidity, minerality, and citrus. Pear and apple broaden to tropical fruit and a layered texture.
We see organic and biodynamic certification as positive steps, but we are setting a higher bar. Grazing-Based Viticulture harnesses the sun’s energy to capture and store atmospheric carbon. Repeatedly rotating animals through the vineyards prolongs our grazing window and generates the tonnage of organic material truly required to fuel our farm.
2021 Antiquum Farm Juel Pinot Noir, Oregon $57.99
Our son, Juel, embodies the wildness of our farm. Juel's feral upbringing on the farm has molded him in unexpected and meaningful ways. This wine reflects his staunchly individual spirit, creativity, sensitivity, and depth. It is a blend of the six selections of Pinot Noir grown at Antiquum Farm. In concert, they convey the many dimensions of our home. The 2021 Juel displays an inherent sense of movement through the entire spectrum of the vineyard, from the higher, ethereal tones at the edges to the deep and brooding middle, all bound together by an electrical current and seamless structural foundation.
2018 Shea Wine Cellars Estate Willamette Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, Oregon $51.99
James Suckling 93
"There’s robust, dark-fruit focus here with cherries and blackberries, as well as spiced-chocolate notes. The palate has a very succulent and juicy feel with bright, fresh tannins, delivering a fresh, lively and very velvety finish. Drink or hold."
Twelve barrels from Block 7, all Wdenswil clone, were hand-picked to create this wine. The long, warm growing season brought out the best in Wdenswil. Bright floral aromas dominate the nose while spicy notes of blackberry bramble and plum excite the palate. Prominent tannins add to the wines complexity and interest.
The Estate
Shea Vineyard is owned by Dick Shea. It is a 200 acre vineyard in Yamhill County of the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Shea sells grapes to some of Oregons best wineries, and the vineyard has a reputation for producing some of the best pinot noirs in the world, from such winemakers as Ken Wright and Mike Etzel of Beaux Freres.
2021 Illahe Willamette Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, Oregon $33.99
Aromas of ripe plum, nutmeg, cigar box, and vanilla bean leap out of the glass. The perceivable fruit on the palate, cherry torte, tamarind paste, strawberry jam, anise, nutmeg, and cinnamon spice, help develop a balanced and weighted mouth feel with good acidity and smooth velvet tannin that lingers.
2021 Patricia Green Chehalem Mountain Vineyard Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, Oregon $41.99
This is where our bread is buttered. I used to say that about our Pommard clone wines and while that is still the lion’s share of the overall cellar volume there is no doubt that Wadensvil is the queen of our cellar. A very high percentage of Wadensvil barrels not only go into single vineyard bottlings, they go into bottlings specifically labeled as Wadensvil. Especially when sourced from Marine soils, (Corrine and the Estate are likewise Marine soils, albeit a different type than Freedom Hill) Wadensvil produces incredibly intriguing and complex wines. Patty and I first noticed this when receiving fruit from Shea Vineyard in 2001 and ever since then we have made it a specific mission to search and obtain this soil/clone combination
We dipped our toe into the water with this nearby vineyard in 2019. This site is the vineyard originally planted by Dick Erath when he moved to Oregon in 1968. The vineyard has been through many new plantings and re-plantings, as well as a variety of ownerships. In late 2021 Cooper Mountain Winery, who also owns Corrine Vineyard, purchased this site. We will continue to get fruit from the multiple blocks we now source from. This bottling is particularly dark, structured and intense while still showing the purity of fruit that we expect from this clone. This is a very special bottling that will last and evolve for ages.
2019 Martin Woods Gamay, Willamette Valley, Oregon $40.99
Crunchy cranberry & black cherry—mineral/spice/pepper/floral/herbal accents—palate is fresh, focused, tense with a lithe balance and framed by gentle tannin structure—a youthful and versatile wine offering much pleasure.
vineyards Tualatin Estate (Tualatin Hills AVA) and Havlin (Van Duzer Corridor AVA). 9 months sans souf, sur lie, old neutral cooperage.
Tualatin Estate is situated in the far northwestern corner of the Willamette Valley, framed by the coast range to the immediate west and composed of Laurelwood soil that gives floral aromatics, red fruit and delicate texture. Havlin vineyard sits squarely in the mouth of the Van duzer Corridor, the air conditioning pathway through the Coast Range where marine air enters from the ocean to the west and cools the Willamette Valley. The consistency and intensity of these winds mean that Gamay from Havlin is more intense, deeply colored and structured. This bottling is a highly complementary marriage of the two sites.The Willamette Valley is truly a home-away-from-home for Gamay. It thrives here.
