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2010 Brooks Rastaban Pinot Noir

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May 18, 2025 - $21

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RATINGS

93Vinous / IWC

A heady, complex bouquet displays scents of fresh red berries, Asian spices, musky underbrush and cola. Sappy, penetrating and focused, offering sweet black raspberry and cherry-cola flavors that pick up a smoky nuance with air. Closes sweet and very long, with a vibrant spiciness that lingers on.

91Burghound.com

...very fresh nose of cool but ripe red berries, briar and soft earth and spice nuances...good verve to the rounded and caressing middle weight flavors that possess solid depth on the attractively textured mid-palate, all wrapped in a delicious and bright finish.

90The Wine Advocate

...displays resinous overtones that are almost coniferous, and which not only slightly obscure the scents of red berries but also connect with a certain opacity on the palate to its fresh cherry and red raspberry fruit. This is still sappy and persistent... The tartness of fruit comes out as slightly detached in the finish, and is allied to smoky as well as resinous notes stemming from oak.

REGION

United States, Oregon, Willamette Valley

Willamette Valley AVA was established in 1983, and it is the oldest appellation in Oregon. Oregon’s modern wine industry began in the Willamette Valley in the 1960s when artists, vagabond winemakers, and U.C. Davis oenology graduates looking for new territory started their own, small, off-the-grid wineries. The appellation is the state’s largest, and it extends 175 miles from Columbia River on the Washington/Oregon border to just south of Eugene, near central Oregon. The Willamette River runs through the area, helping to give the appellation a mild year-round climate. There are six smaller sub-appellations within this AVA, but altogether the Willamette Valley has the largest concentration of wineries in Oregon, as well as the majority of the state’s most famous producers. Pinot Noir is king here, followed by Chardonnay, Pinot Gris and Riesling. To most admirers of Oregon Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley offers the most distinctive wine choices in the state.

TYPE

Red Wine, Pinot Noir

This red wine is relatively light and can pair with a wide variety of foods. The grape prefers cooler climates and the wine is most often associated with Burgundy, Champagne and the U.S. west coast. Regional differences make it nearly as fickle as it is flexible.

VINTAGE

2010 Brooks Rastaban Pinot Noir