2018 Division Winemaking Company Pinot Noir Deux Eola Springs Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  8/21/2021 - Rieslingfan wrote:

  Division Winemaking Company does not get enough attention. Thomas Monroe and Kate Norris have created a fascinating enterprise that covers a wide range (Pinot, Chard, Gamay, Cab Franc, etc.) with a consistently high level of quality. The 2018 ‘Deux’ Pinot Noir from the Eola Amity Hills is amazingly full flavored while still having an ethereal palate presence. Red cherry fruit and herbal/earthy undertones are backed up with citrus acids and there’s a balanced tannic backbone. It’s built to develop.

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  4/26/2021 - The Drunken Cyclist Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Retail $39. Under DIAM 10 closure. Reading my note of 18 months ago (from the Second Annual Blind Tasting of American Pinot Noir): "Dirty and flinty. With strawberry, albeit faint, on the nose. Good fruit, a bit funky still on the palate, but this seems like a great food wine. Some healthy tannins on the finish.” Um, well, no, at least not today. Quite fruity on the nose with black cherry and just (ever-so) slight hints of funk and earth. Wow, quite the difference from a year and a half ago. I might need to call Kate Norris, owner and winemaker (along with Tom Monroe) to try to figure out the almost polar opposites of this wine’s personality. The palate? Uber-fruity (rich, dark cherry) and quite tart, the earth tries to sneak through on the mid-palate, but the fruit shuts that down rather quickly and decidedly. I really can not get over how different this wine is. And me like.
  
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  12/7/2019 - The Drunken Cyclist Likes this wine: 90 Points

  The Second Annual Blind Tasting of American Pinot Noir: Retail $39. Dirty and flinty. With strawberry, albeit faint, on the nose. Good fruit, a bit funky still on the palate, but this seems like a great food wine. Some healthy tannins on the finish. Very Good to Excellent. 89-91 Points. thedrunkencyclist.com

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