2018 Pinot Noir
This lovely Estate Pinot Noir is lovingly attended to by the Barr family. Grown on the Rockford Reach on Orchard Road, this wine has all the distinctive flavors of our terroir, cherry, apple and pear all wrapped up in a nice ruby red package with a subtle kiss of French oak that rounds out this limited estate beauty. See for yourself why it’s an multi award-winning wine.
The Pinot Noir we grow here in the Columbia Gorge is much richer in depth and complexity than grown anywhere else in Oregon, bursting with deep dark Bing cherry flavor and minerality,.
Home to the ridge and valley topography created by some millenia of volcano activity and fed from the ancient waters of Mt. Hood's Eliot Glacier, the Columbia Gorge provides the perfect sanctuary to grow these grapes, producing a flinty crispness always high on minerals and deep in flavor.
If you have been to Hood Crest Winery you have watched these grapes grow. Our vineyard is located on Rockford Reach and our grapes love the way these rocks heat in the sun and keep their roots warm and cozy.
Tess Barr is one of the less than 10% lead women winemakers in the nation and is part of the Women Winemakers Project. A patented formulator, Ms Barr has been decorated with 25 issued US and International Patents and has filed over 100 inventions with the USPTO.
