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Phelps Creek 2007 Oak Ridge Vineyard Gewürztraminer (Columbia Gorge (OR))

Editors' Choice

Price $17

This is a lovely bottle, floral, leesy, textural and blessed with a thrilling raciness. Despite the 1.2% residual sugar, it is a crisp and elegant dry wine that captures the perfume of Gewürztraminer without descending into soapiness. The length is amazing. — P.G. (10/1/2008)

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Phelps Creek 2008 Dry Reserve Gewürztraminer (Columbia Gorge (OR))

Price $20

Mostly Celilo vineyard fruit, this bone dry reserve Gewürztraminer mixes floral and citrus blossom scents with flavors of lemon rind, green apple and minty wintergreen. Fermented in neutral French oak, it’s fresh and spicy, and deserves the reserve designation. — P.G. (12/15/2009)

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Phelps Creek 2008 Oakridge Gewürztraminer (Columbia Gorge (OR))

Price $18

Made with 100 percent certified organic grapes. Candied orange flavors, scented with bright blossoms, make this an orange blossom special of a wine. It’s full, ripe, and round, with excellent depth and length. — P.G. (12/15/2009)

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Phelps Creek 2007 Unoaked Chardonnay (Columbia Gorge (OR))

Price $18

Searingly tart, this might be a 2007 Muscadet for its thrilling, stiletto-steel spine and leesy minerality. Simply calling it unoaked does not begin to do justice to the complexity and textural density that this unusual Oregon Chardonnay offers. For acid lovers who don’t think that Chardonnay must be slathered in toasty new wood in order to have any flavor, this… — P.G. (10/1/2008)

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Phelps Creek 2007 Celilo Vineyard Chardonnay (Columbia Gorge (OR))

Price $24

Rich Cushman made this wine; it nicely expresses the minerality and tight fruit that characterizes this excellent vineyard. This is at first a rather austere, compact wine, but it is dense with layers of flavor and representative of one of the most unique terroirs in the Pacific Northwest. — P.G. (11/15/2008)

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Phelps Creek 2008 Unoaked Chardonnay (Columbia Gorge (OR))

Price $18

It has crisp, vivacious fruit, refreshing minerality, and a definite graham cracker flavor tying everything together. — P.G. (12/15/2009)

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Phelps Creek 2007 Le Petit Pinot Noir (Columbia Gorge (OR))

Price $18

For an inexpensive Oregon Pinot Noir, this has a lovely, expansive aroma that mingles rose petals, strawberry, white chocolate and cola. This is elegant, supple and entirely approachable, with none of the hard, earthy, vegetal or bitter character that can often characterize inexpensive Pinots. Think of a really good village Burgundy from a ripe vintage such as 2005… — P.G. (11/15/2008)

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Phelps Creek 2008 Le Petit Pinot Noir (Columbia Gorge (OR))

Price $18

Phelps Creek’s most affordable Pinot Noir is a delight; soft and fruity, scented with crushed strawberries and violets, highlighted with juniper spice, and beautifully balanced from start to finish. — P.G. (12/15/2009)

Most Reviewed Designations

Celilo Vineyard Dry Reserve Le Petit Oak Ridge Vineyard Oakridge Unoaked

Most Reviewed Varietals

Chardonnay Gewürztraminer Pinot Noir

2009 W.H. Smith Purple Label Piedra Hill Vineyard

This is a gigantic Cabernet, deeply concentrated and enormously tannic…

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