Audeant Luminous Hills Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, USA 2021
America's Best Pinot Noir, According To The Decanter World Wine Awards!
Audeant - May they dare, may they venture, may they risk
It brings the team here at Audeant Wines no end of gratitude that you would be interested in the work that we are doing. Going on eight years now, we have been diligent in our pursuit of beauty and the potential of a shared understanding. We look forward to the honor of being known by you through the products of our labor.
The work is many faceted, yet transparent. We maintain absolute respect for the individual site, and are attentive and sensitive to the responses of the vines to their environment throughout the growing season. We carry the impressions of that sensitivity into the cellar during harvest, allowing them and past impressions to dictate our responses to the fruit itself, its fermentation, and the resultant wine.
As with most that is inspiring, quantities are rather finite.
"Coming from Yamhill-Carlton, the 2021 Pinot Noir Luminous Hills Vineyard leads with notes of medicinal herbs, bright berries, blood orange, and fresh flowers. The palate is linear and energetic, with ripe acidity, fine tannins, and nicely balanced tension through the finish. It’s going to benefit from another year in bottle, then drink over the following 15 years." Jeb Dunnuck 94