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| Drinking window: Drink between 2009 and 2011 (based on 18 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87 pts. and median of 87 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by WineAggregate on 7/29/2011 & rated 87 points: Less fruit and body than the ArborBrook. Decent and refreshing, but a small wine. (1744 views) | | | Tasted by RogerG on 7/13/2011: Dry, crisp and flavorful. Good varietal character. Slight citrus overtone. (495 views) | | | Tasted by joshwoodward on 8/5/2010 & rated 84 points: Corks: Air Conditioning (Rossford, OH): Apple cider nose, with a bit of pear. Salty? Simple and pleasant, but flabby. (2492 views) | | | Tasted by Bderge on 7/20/2010 & rated 89 points: Light oakiness that doesn't take away from the tropical fruit. Very refreshing. (2176 views) | | | Tasted by bilgepump100 on 6/12/2010 & rated 87 points: Light color. A little oaky on the nose. Decent flavor. The oak goes away. (2086 views) | | | Tasted by Kirk Grant on 4/4/2010 & rated 86 points: Color: onion skin (almost clear with a hint of yellow)
Smell: Star fruit, dehydrated pineapple, and saline
Taste: green apple, pineapple, nectarine, and white grapes
Overall: An interesting and enjoyable wine that seems to offer a little more as it warms up. This is not a wine that shows well "strait out of the fridge". It's easy to enjoy and typical of what I look for in Oregon Pinot Gris...but I would like to see more from this producer. (1985 views) | | | Tasted by wino_tim on 9/25/2009 & rated 88 points: Light bodied and refreshing with nice zip to its floral, peach, apricot and crushed stone flavors. (1373 views) | | | Tasted by cgrimes on 7/14/2009 & rated 87 points: Tasting the Willamette Valley--2009, Day One (Willamette Valley, OR): Light golden color. Nose of pear, some apple. Similar palate with slight anise, spice. Not as floral as I look for in a PG and its overall density weighed it down a bit. (2446 views) |
| Torii Mor Producer website
Torii Mor Winery was founded in 1993 by Donald Olson, MD, who remains the owner to this day with his wife, Margie. The winery was initially a small project that was intended to showcase the fruit from his vineyard. //Olson Estate Vineyard//, formerly //McDaniel Vineyard//, is located in the Dundee Hills AVA. The now organically farmed vineyard was planted in 1972 and is one of the oldest vineyards in Yamhill County.
Since its modest beginnings in 1993 with just over 1,000 cases, Torii Mor has blossomed into a small, super-premium winery that focuses on small lots of handcrafted, vineyard-designated Pinot Noir. Current harvest levels range between 14,000 and 17,000 cases depending on the vintage. The focus at the winery is devoted to the production of Pinot Noir beginning in the vineyards with careful, attentive management to achieve mouth-watering, truly physiologically ripe fruit and continuing in the cellar with small lots, minimal handling, and native yeast fermentation to express each unique site in a classic “Burgundian” way.
Torii Mor currently obtains fruit from over ten carefully chosen vineyards. Our wine making team ensures that the vineyards will produce the highest quality fruit with strong emphasis on low tonnages and low-input farming practices for natural plant balance. This dedication to quality has resulted in the production of vineyard-designated wines to complement our well known Oregon production that remains the flagship of Torii Mor.
And now about the name: TORII MOR was chosen by the founder as he felt it conjured a feeling of unique elegance. Borrowing from the Japanese, the word “torii” refers to the ornate gates often seen at the entrances to Japanese gardens. “Mor” is a word in ancient Scandinavian that means “earth.” By integrating these two distinct languages, the romantic image of a gate to the earth space or passageway to beautiful things is formed. We believe that Pinot Noir, more than any other varietal, is that beautiful gateway to the earth.
Jacques Tardy, winemaker at Torii Mor winery, Dundee, Oregon
Jacques is a native of Nuits Saint Georges, in Burgundy, France. Jacques grew up in a family which has been heavily involved in the French wine industry for five generations, both in wine making and vineyard management. Jacques was educated at the Lycee Agricole and Viticole of Beaune, earning a degree in 1974 in Viticulture and Enology. After Jacques completed a year of mandatory military service, he returned home, leased vineyards and made his first wine under his own Jacques Tardy label in 1976.
After several years of making wine in France, Jacques moved to California in 1982 to work at the J. Lohr Winery in San Jose, California. Jacques started first in the cellar and was promoted quickly to Cellar Master, a position he held for more than five years.
With the desire to make quality Pinot Noir, Jacques and his family moved to Oregon in 1990 to explore job opportunities. Jacques started as Co-Winemaker at Montinore Vineyards, in Forest Grove, Oregon, and was promoted to Winemaker in 1992. In 1998 Jacques added to his winemaking duties the management of the 240 acre vineyard after the vineyard manager left the company, a position he held until fall 2004 when he took over the as winemaker at Torii Mor winery in Dundee. The quality red and white wines that Jacques has produced since 1990 have earned several gold medals and other awards of distinction. While at Torii Mor, Jacques has crafted his signature “Deux Verres” burgundian style wine, as well as furthering new world Oregon style “terroir” high quality wines.Pinot GrisFrom Pinot Gris Wikipedia entry:
Wines made from the Pinot gris vary greatly and are dependent on the region and wine making style they are from. Alsatian Pinot gris are medium to full bodied wines with a rich, somewhat floral bouquet. They tend to be spicy in comparisons with other Pinot gris. While most Pinot gris are meant to be consumed early, Alsatian Pinot gris can age well. German Pinot gris are more full-bodied with a balance of acidity and slight sweetness. In Oregon the wines are medium bodied with a yellow to copper-pink color and aromas of pear, apple, and/or melon. In California, the Pinot gris are more light bodied with a crisp, refreshing taste with some pepper and arugula notes. The Pinot grigio style of Italy is a light-bodied, often lean wine that is light in color with sometimes spritzy flavors that can be crisp and acidic. Although this wine can be very sweet, it will begin to lose its acidity when it is nearly ripe.
Pinot gris is considered an "early to market wine" that can be bottled and out on the market within 4–12 weeks after fermentation.
Varietal character (Appellation America)
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Tarte tatinUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.Oregon Oregon Wine, Oregon Wineries (Oregon Wine Board)Willamette Valley Willamette Valley Wineries Association | Willamette Valley (Oregon Wine Board)
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Willamette Valley Vintage Reviews
Willamette Valley Willamette Valley Wineries Association | Willamette Valley AVA Wikipedia article
#2012 vintage:
"Broadly speaking, the Willamette Valley's 2012 pinots are fleshy and fruit-dominated, with round tannins and forward personalities. The fruit tends to the darker side of the pinot spectrum--think cherry and blackberry rather than strawberry and raspberry, much less cranberry and redcurrant--and this gives the wines massive crowd appeal. The best wines also have the depth to age, so don't be fooled by their accessible nature in the early going." - Josh Raynolds
#2013 vintage:
"The key to a successful foray into the ‘13s is first to understand that in most instances the wines lean to the red fruit side of Pinot Noir; they tend to be tangy and tightly wound but often lack concentration. While some wines may put on weight and gain sweetness with bottle age, that’s a gamble I’ll personally leave to others. The 2013s also tend to lack the tannic structure for more than mid-term aging although they will likely endure on their acidity, which I suspect will usually outlast the fruit in this vintage" - Josh Raynolds
#2014 vintage:
"The 2014 vintage in Oregon may be remembered as the vintage of a lifetime [for growers] . . . these wines as they will be similar to the 2009 vintage . . . lovely, ripe, rich, deeply concentrated and aromatic" - winebusiness.com
"The conditions made it relatively easy to make good wines, with no worries about achieving ripeness, and the lack of frost risk allowed us to keep grapes on the vine as long as we wished." - Casey McClellan |
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