St. Innocent, Pinot Noir, Shea Vineyard - 2018

Name: St. Innocent, Pinot Noir, Shea Vineyard
Brand: St. Innocent
SKU: 31713
Price: 66.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 31713 750mL

Shea Vineyard is prime Oregon Pinot Noir country located in the Yamhill-Carlton District. The wine ages for 16 months in French oak barrels (25% new oak). A structured, yet elegant wine with brilliant red fruit, spice and earthiness.

This item is currently out of stock.

Send me an email when this is back in stock.

Notify Me

Free shipping on first web orders over $299

Color

Red

Vintage

2018

Country

USA

Region

Oregon

Sub-Region

Willamette Valley

Producer

St. Innocent

Grape Variety

Pinot Noir

Need Help Deciding? Get personal recommendations from our staff

Staff Pick Notes

I consider St. Innocent one of the great Oregon wineries. As terroir obsessives, harvesting and cellar work are done by hand. Winemaker Mark Vlossak is constantly sampling the fruit while on the vines and at every step of winemaking, getting the perfect expression for that specific site, vintage, barrel. This cuvee sees 16 months in oak, 75% neutral and 25% new, with no sulfur added for fermentation. You'll find aromas of cola, rhubarb, oak spice, maraschino cherry, with some florals and earthy forest floor coming in with time in the glass. Shea Vineyard (actually two plots split by a ravine) is known for producing long-lived wines with exceptional Oregon terroir and this bottle: lighter and elegant but well structured, the kind of wine that's in great drinking shape now but with the depth to age another 10yrs, makes me agree.

- JON

Glossary

Pinot Noir

The Burgundy region of northeastern France is the historic home of the Pinot Noir grape, and is the source of the world’s greatest examples. Here one finds renditions of Pinot Noir that deliver power with finesse and grace, wines that have unimaginable depth of flavor, yet are perfectly balanced and ephemeral in the mouth - in short, wines that deliver all that Pinot Noir has to offer. Terroir, the concept that wines from a specific region have unique and identifiable traits, is intricately...

Willamette Valley

Perhaps the most familiar wine producing region in Oregon, the Willamette Valley is actually a group of distinct AVA's (American Viticultural Areas). This varied area is home to approximately two thirds of Oregon's wineries. Bounded roughly by the cities of Portland in the north and Eugene in the south, the near-idyllic wine growing region is cradled between the Cascade Mountain Range on its east side and the Coastal Range to the west, and produces some of America's most sublime expressions of...

Oregon

The largest wine region in Oregon is the Willamette Valley, lying between the cities of Portland and Eugene and home to most of Oregon’s wineries. As it does not have one homogeneous climate, it has been broken up into several different AVAs. In the best of them, the perfect amounts of wind, rain, sun exposure, and altitude combine to give Pinot Noir the warm days and cool nights it needs in order to thrive. Combine that with good drainage and poor soils, and you’ve got the perfect environment...