Region: Yamhill-Carlton, Willamette Valley, Oregon

Vintage: 2019

Composition: 100% Pinot Noir

History: Great Moraine takes its name from the cataclysmic floods that occurred in the northern Willamette Valley of Oregon during the last ice age. As the glaciers receded, they released a torrent of water from the giant Lake Missoula. These famous Missoula floods cut through the Columbia Basin and helped carve out the Columbia Gorge.

Tasting notes: On the nose it has heady notes of guava and strawberry, lemongrass, thyme, floral perfume, cocoa, woolen shirt after a camping trip, red licorice, freshly tilled earth, tarragon. Flavors of cherry, anise, leather, lilac and a bit of pine sap. Fresh, clean, tight and concentrated from the start with a wavy structure of high-pitched tannins towards the finish.

Award: 94 pts Wine Spectator