Donor: Alexander Clark @ Silas Wines
Value: $300
MinBidIncr: $10
Auction Closes: 8pm PT
Six YEAR VERTICAL! – 6 bottles
- 2013 PDX Pinot Noir
- 2014 The Pearl Pinot Noir
- 2015 Ladd’s Addition Pinot Noir
- 2016 Ladd’s Addition Pinot Noir
- 2017 The Pearl Pinot Noir
- 2018 The Optimist Gamay Noir
It’s a vertical, people! A bottle from every year, 2013-2018. Take a tour of what was going on in Oregon, starting with the Ugly Duckling year of 2013 that everybody wrote off, turning out to be elegant and beautiful with some age. 2014 through 2017 were all warm years, but all warm years do not produce the same wines–see for yourself. Higher elevation and earlier picking (I pick on pH just as much as Brix) result in hot vintages that have all the weight and fruit power that one expects, while retaining the structure and brightness that comes with not letting the acidity disappear. The 2017 Pearl is a Wine Club Only wine, available to you all today only! Capping it all off is a Gamay Noir that is dark, complex, and slightly reductive. This is not your granny’s Beaujolais Nouveau. Warning: If you are exploring Oregon wines and years, you might want to sign yourself up for two of these.
