2017 Pinot Noir, Indindoli Vineyard

The 2021 Jenks Pinot Noir is beautifully colored crimson red hue, the wine expresses the pleasing aromatics we have come to love about this vineyard of ripe tree fruits, wild berries, fresh sage, lavender, cinnamon, forest floor, leather, and roasted nuts.  This Pinot Noir continues its reputation with excessively rich, dense and captivating flavors of black raspberry, bright cherry, cherry cola, blueberry and pomegranate.  The wine has layers of Asian spice, all wrapped with the framework of selective oak barrel. Adding to the complexity, the wine is profiled with a velvety texture, velvety tannins, firm structure, and a wonderfully long finish. Year after year this vineyard creates a wine that is not only consistent in profile but approachable when young and built to age. This wine is very reminiscent of the 2015 and 2016 vintages, which were spectacular drinkers a decade into aging. 

2021 Pinot Noir, Jenks Vineyard

2022 Pinot Noir, Jenks Vineyard

2018 Pinot Noir, Wohler Vineyard
This Pinot has a lovely crimson red hue, the wine opens with enticing aromas of ripe tree fruits, wild berries, cardamom, cinnamon, leather, and roasted nuts. Deep, dense, and captivating, the lavish flavors of cranberry, ripe cherry, blueberry and pomegranate are well-integrated with nuances of mocha, spice, and a kiss of oak. To add more complexity, the profile is layered with a velvety texture, bright acidity, supple tannins, firm structure, and a lingering finish. These factors help create a wine that is not only amiable and approachable when young, but also built to age.

2018 Pinot Noir,  Wohler Vineyard

The 2017 Jenks Pinot Noir is yet another stunner from John and Jennifer’s vineyard. First off, this wine aged for three years in new French Oak. This Jenks Pinot, like its predecessors, doesn’t disappoint and every year this wine keeps getting more interesting.  The 2017 is earthy, leathery, and loaded with tobacco on the nose.  This is very silky wine on the pallet with plum, raspberry and blackberry compote and caramelized Rhubarb notes on the pallet. The 2017 Jenks is a smooth, round pinot with a lengthy finish. Extracted and rich, yet balanced and beautiful, the 2017 Jenks is a wine you will love to share with your friends.  

2017 Pinot Noir, Jenks Vineyard

The 2019 Jenks wine is a byproduct of a near ideal growing season. Characteristic for it intensive aromas of ripe red fruits, Spices floral teas and baking spices such as cloves and cardamom, this vintage will likely cellar for a long time.  For any of you that have opened the 2016 Jenks lately, you will understand how beautiful an aged Pinot Noir can become - it is big and needs to unwind, but when it does, it is a fruit bomb the become more earthy each hour.  On the palate, the wine is big expressive and delicious. Expressing robust flavors of black cherry, wild raspberry, cranberry, rhubarb, and a nuanced with cardamom and oak . This wine will continue to open for hours and deliver a structured, complex and beautiful mouthfeel and amazing depth of flavor. This Pinot will age well for over a decade.

2017 Pinot Noir, Indindoli Vineyard

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