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Bethel Heights 1999 Flat Block Reserve Pinot Noir

Editors' Choice

Price $35

This has long been a top Oregon Pinot, and it shows its breeding in this tricky vintage. The nose is redolent of sweet, grapey cherries, aromatic and quite pretty. In the mouth extra dimensions emerge: fruit, mineral and earth. Balanced and tight, some additional cellaring will flesh it out and let it unwrap. Editors’ Choice. —P.G. — P.G. (4/1/2002)

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Bethel Heights 2004 Pinot Gris

Best Buy

Price $15

Full and spicy, this marries ripe, pear and mango-flavored fruit with spicy cinnamon and green tea. It’s got the harmonious integration and lingering fruitiness that makes you want second and third glasses. — P.G. (2/1/2006)

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Bethel Heights 1998 Southeast Block Reserve Pinot Noir

Price $35

Very light in color. Opens with blueberry, rhubarb, bacon and cedar aromas. From front to back it sits on a light frame, and on the palate it dances. Shows some buttered-toast and wood on the finely etched finish. Classy and lean, not sugary sweet. Elegant, in the Bethel Heights house style. — M.S. (12/1/2000)

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Bethel Heights 1999 Estate Grown Chardonnay

Price $15

This taut, steely Chardonnay, muscular and firm, tastes of stone, mineral, herb and citrus. It’s a complex, appealing mix, supported by vivid acids. Fine length and precise, elegant flavors with a light touch on the oak. This is high-wire Chardonnay. Best Buy. —P.G. — P.G. (4/1/2002)

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Bethel Heights 1998 Wadenswil Block Reserve Pinot Noir

Price $35

Very deep, lush and welcoming in the nose—there’s an unmistakable heavy color and look to it. It’s a ripe and ready wine that should pick up complexity with bottle age. Yes, there’s a one-dimensionality to it because it’s a single-clone wine, but you should really enjoy the cherry and plum sweetness at its core. — M.S. (12/1/2000)

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Bethel Heights 1998 Freedom Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir

Price $30

Fine aromas of sour cherry, violets and spice open this light-bodied but nicely textured wine. Very clean cherry fruit shines on the palate, and there is very good fruit-to-acid balance here. Has a lengthy finish with dry cherry flavors, a mineral note and even tannins. Focused and attractive already, it will age well for two or three years. — M.M. (12/1/2000)

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Bethel Heights 1999 Nysa Vineyard Pinot Noir

Price $30

Made from purchased grapes, this clear, bright wine offers sweet fruit packaged in a clean, elegant style. The spotlight is on the fruit, sweet and pure, accented with light spice and finishing with a hint of mocha. —P.G. — P.G. (4/1/2002)

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Bethel Heights 1999 Wadenswil Block Reserve Pinot Noir

Price $35

Classy and tight, with a tart cherry, herb and tomato profile and racy acidity that is very ’99. Light and smooth, with an even chalk-dust feel, it stays lean and clean through the long, sour cherry finish. This will even out a bit with time in the bottle, but not flesh out much. It will always be angular in manner, with great appeal to those who enjoy high-strung… — M.M. (11/1/2001)

Most Reviewed Designations

Casteel Reserve Estate Estate Grown Flat Block Estate Flat Block Reserve Freedom Hill Vineyard Lewman Vineyard Nysa Vineyard Southeast Block Reserve Wadenswil Block Reserve West Block Reserve

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Chardonnay Pinot Blanc Pinot Gris Pinot Noir

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