Antica Terra Pinot Noir

Wine information: Every year, the Antica Terra Pinot Noir is different. Antica Terra wines are blends of estate and purchased fruit, and the mixes change each year. The palette of purchased fruit changes - Winemaker Maggie Harrison (ex Sine Qua Non) buys fruit from a handful of sources. And the quality of the estate fruit varies with each vintage. The Antica Terra vineyard has an extremely distinctive terroir. The fruit is instantly identifiable, according to Maggie, with a signature stony, earthy, soily, mushroom quality. But the site only accounts for around 50% of the main bottling’s blend. In order to flesh out the wine, Maggie also uses purchased from vineyards like Shea, Cherry Grove, and Johan Vineyards. Maggie’s winemaking techniques include aging wines on the lees, including 20-30% of pressed juice in every barrel to add complexity and aromatics, an unusually hot fermentation temperature, stirring the wine while in barrel, no racking, and employment of 25-50% medium toasted new French oak. Antica Terra's 2007 Willamette Valley Pinot noir is a blend of 53% Antica Terra Estate fruit, 28% Shea Vineyard (Wadenswil and Dijon 828 clones), 9% Croft Vineyard, and 9% Cherry Grove Vineyard.

Reviews: "The 2007 Pinot Noir is medium ruby-colored with an alluring perfume of cinnamon, allspice, incense, cherry, and raspberry. This leads to a medium-bodied, elegant wine with excellent depth and concentration, a silky texture, and incipient complexity. This lengthy effort will provide pleasure from 2011 to 2019." 92 Points, Robert Parker.

 
     

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