Elk Cove Pinot Noir Rose (willamette valley)

Willamette Valley

92 Points & Best Buy - Wine & Spirits Magazine
(April, 2023)
“If you could put strawberry blossoms into a bouquet you’d have a sense
of how this pink bursts from the glass, bright, generous and expressive. Its
flavors are round and juicy, exuberant with berry fruit that’s as red as its
assertive color. Delightful with chilled prawns.” — Patrick J. Comiskey

VINEYARD: The fruit for this all Pinot Noir Rosé is hand-harvested from our estate
vineyard sites in the Willamette Valley. For the Rosé, we choose both young and old
vines from higher elevation vineyards on their own rootstock. These give us full
aromatic and flavor development as well as great freshness of fruit within a framework
of lower alcohol.
WINEMAKING: Pinot Noir fruit for our Rosé is hand-harvested and gently whole
bunch pressed with limited skin crushing, which makes virtually a “white Pinot Noir.”
The wine is fermented cool in stainless steel tanks. Then carefully selected lots of
fermented red Pinot Noir juice is blended back for color and texture. Our Pinot Noir
Rosé is finished completely dry.