Audeant Nysa Vineyard Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, USA 2016

Inaugural Release

Produced in even smaller quantities is our 2016 Nysa vineyard Pinot Noir. The vines here are 30 years old, producing tiny clusters of beautiful fruit. It is humbling to walk the rows where the signs on the end posts still hang like a trophy room of Oregon’s winemaking history: Bethel Heights, Panther Creek, Ken Wright, Bergstrom, Antica Terra. We are honored to write our own chapter into the history of this place. Our Nysa Pinot Noir is surging with aromatics of black cherry, hard candy, warm spices and the exhalations of ancient decomposed volcanoes, all humming along a frame of expansive limpid tannin. The wine is dense and tightly coiled. Open for a few hours or a whole day and it sings, boding well for a long life of development in bottle. One hundred and thirty-seven cases produced.

"The 2016 Pinot Noir Nysa Vineyard is drinking beautifully! Fermented with about two-thirds whole clusters, it has detailed aromas of wild blackberries, star anise, tea leaves and flint. The palate is supple and seamless, with powerful, perfumed fruit structured by velvety tannins, and it has a long, flint-laced finish. It will age gracefully over the next decade or more." Wine Advocate 95