2014 Tendril C~Note Pinot Noir
Tasting Notes
This delicious wine presents with a wide array of aromatics including raspberry cordial, rose petal, tangerine peel, beet root, dried sage, ground coffee, and freshly tilled soil. The palate is complex and impressive expressing flavors of marionberry, wild plum, barrel toast, tobacco, dried Italian herbs, cherry compote and talc with a long, structured finish.
Pairings
grilled lamb with rosemary, compound butter filet, vegetable terrine
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Wine Data
Varietal Composition
100% Pinot Noir
AVA
100% Willamette Valley
100% Yamhill-Carlton
Aging and Cooperage
18 months in French oak barrels; 100% new
Bottled:
May 2017
Cases Produced:
102
Recommendations
Recommended
Paste Magazine – 2014 Tendril C~Note Pinot Noir
Yep. It’ll set you back a hundred bucks. Worth it? I don’t recommend a lot of wines at this price point and that’s partly because it feels silly when there are so many excellent ones at less than half as much. Once in a while a winery truly knocks me out, and Tendril is one of about four that pulled that off in the past year. If you really love Pinot, and you can spare it, and you want, say, something for a holiday table or an intimate gathering or you want to give a wine-geek a gift that will utterly delight them, keep Tendril on your radar. Sophisticated as hell, with great structure and a lot of nuance. Confit cherry, rose petal, and earth notes are prominent, with sub-notes of tangerine peel, thyme, sage, coffee, blackberry and… beets? I think beets. Something both earthy and vegetal. New French oak barrels give it a decidedly toasty character. Basically sublime.
8 November 2018Paste Magazine