Cristom, Pinot Noir "Louise", 2023
Of Cristom's four "estate family" single-vineyard Pinots, Louise is the gentlest and most generous in personality — named for Paul Gerrie's maternal grandmother. It's also, fittingly, the first vineyard the family ever planted on the Eola-Amity property, going in the ground in 1993. The block sits lower on the slope, between roughly 290 and 440 feet, with an upper section on deep Jory basalt and a lower portion on Missoula Flood silts and sedimentary rock. That geological split shows in the glass: classic basalt-driven Pinot perfume framed by a softer, more sediment-fed mid-palate. Steve Doerner's whole-cluster house style holds it all together. The 2023 is approachable but serious, the most welcoming of the estate quartet.
Cristom, Pinot Noir "Louise", 2023
Of Cristom's four "estate family" single-vineyard Pinots, Louise is the gentlest and most generous in personality — named for Paul Gerrie's maternal grandmother. It's also, fittingly, the first vineyard the family ever planted on the Eola-Amity property, going in the ground in 1993. The block sits lower on the slope, between roughly 290 and 440 feet, with an upper section on deep Jory basalt and a lower portion on Missoula Flood silts and sedimentary rock. That geological split shows in the glass: classic basalt-driven Pinot perfume framed by a softer, more sediment-fed mid-palate. Steve Doerner's whole-cluster house style holds it all together. The 2023 is approachable but serious, the most welcoming of the estate quartet.
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Of Cristom's four "estate family" single-vineyard Pinots, Louise is the gentlest and most generous in personality — named for Paul Gerrie's maternal grandmother. It's also, fittingly, the first vineyard the family ever planted on the Eola-Amity property, going in the ground in 1993. The block sits lower on the slope, between roughly 290 and 440 feet, with an upper section on deep Jory basalt and a lower portion on Missoula Flood silts and sedimentary rock. That geological split shows in the glass: classic basalt-driven Pinot perfume framed by a softer, more sediment-fed mid-palate. Steve Doerner's whole-cluster house style holds it all together. The 2023 is approachable but serious, the most welcoming of the estate quartet.
