Big Table Farm Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2022 Sustainable

94 Points Wine Enthusiast
If this is how they grow Pinot Noir down on the farm, then farm living is the life for me. I love this wine’s bright, fresh raspberry popsicle, lilac and watermelon aromas. The juicy and medium-bodied palate shows off darker raspberry fruit mixed with black-tea and roasted pork-shoulder flavors—just don’t tell the pig on the label.

94 Points Wine Spectator
Polished and handsomely structured, with expressive raspberry and tart cherry flavors that take on forest floor, dusky spice and orange peel accents as this builds complexity and richness toward refined tannins.

Our Farm: We own and manage 70 acres in the northern Willamette Valley, where we raise animals and produce seasonal vegetables. If you visit us, you'll find free-range hens, pasture-raised pigs and grass-fed cows. We are building a managed intensive grazing system of farming that builds our soil, sequesters carbon, and moves us towards a healthy, sustainable and diverse farm.

Our Labels: The art on our labels is drawn by Clare and is unique to each vintage. The labels themselves are made by hand using a letterpress and thick printmaking paper. After each label is applied by hand we carefully wrap each bottle in tissue to preserve the letterpress paper's texture and beauty. There is a product code on the bottom of each bottle so you don’t have to unwrap them to identify the wines.

The 2022 Willamette Valley Pinot noir is as always comprised of all the vineyards we work with – each is treated with equal diligence and as Brian says, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The wines are 100% whole cluster, fermented with whatever yeast blows in the door and nurtured to dryness and perfect extraction with a combination of foot trodding and pump-overs, and a gentle press. Then put into barrel with a combination of new(some) and old (mostly) and then stirred and topped weekly until the malolactic conversion is complete. We bottle after 10 months in barrel without any fining or filtration. We drink this wine regularly and we hope you will too!

Unfined and unfiltered. Alc. 13.1% by volume.

Wine Notes
Aromatic prelude of dried roses, coriander and muddled raspberry. Candied bacon, anise and strawberry, guava across the palate with a savory finish.