2022 Bergström Pinot Noir Slice
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From a site thought to possibly be a 60-million-year-old sand dune and the estate’s sandiest vineyard site (hence the name), the jeweled ruby-hued 2022 Pinot Noir Silice offers compact notes of black raspberries, baking spices, and tangerine and is highly perfumed with rocky earth. Medium-bodied, it has a more linear feel and is long on the palate, with ripe tannins, a more gravelly texture, and a great, savory finish. Elegant and compact at the same time, it can be enjoyed over the coming 15 or more years.
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The 2022 Pinot Noir Silice Vineyard is transparent and pure. It has detailed aromas of cranberry, pomegranate and tangerine peel, while accents of mossy bark and mushrooms evoke a shady forest. The medium-bodied palate is concentrated and dynamic with flavors that shift from fruit to earth and spice. It has a silky texture, vibrant acidity and a long, spicy finish. It will mature gracefully over the next 10+ years.
The 2022 Pinot Noir Silice is perfumed with a dusty array of spring flowers, chamomile, crushed stones, cola and dried black cherries. It’s soothingly round and supple with depths of ripe wild berry fruit complicated by tactile mineral tones that amass toward the close. The Silice takes a turn toward tension through the finish, structured with fine-grained tannins and a tart cranberry resonance that lingers on. The Silice vineyard is located in the Chehalem Mountains AVA, planted on sandy soils in a particularly windy location. Give this time to find its inner harmony.