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WillaKenzie Estate 2001 Pinot Gris

Editors' Choice

Price $20

I don’t know anyone making better Pinot Gris in Oregon than this premiere property. Rich, ripe, round and sensuous, this lush and textured wine unwraps its ripe fruit in layers of pear/apricot flavor, enhanced with bright spice and finished with flavors of vanilla cream. — P.G. (8/1/2002)

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WillaKenzie Estate 2005 Pinot Gris

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Price $19

WillaKenzie’s oldest Pinot Gris vines are almost 15 years of age, and their estate bottling seems to gain in weight and power with each passing year. Chewy and substantial, layered and meaty, it’s a succulent fruit salad; hints of pear and peach, mango and papaya, grapefruit and pineapple. The wine is beautifully proportioned and its richness is never heavy or fat. — P.G. (12/1/2006)

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WillaKenzie Estate 2008 Pinot Blanc

Price $20

This is a truly lovely, elegant Pinot Blanc, from a winery that has a fine handle on the grape. Scents of lemongrass and grapefruit run headlong into delicate, evocative fruit flavors of melon, gooseberry, lime and stone fruits. Though quite dry and tart, it has so much complexity that it never turns sour. — P.G. (12/15/2009)

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WillaKenzie Estate 2003 Triple Black Slopes Pinot Noir

Price $55

Here the fruit is pure blackberry, the tannins ripe and redolent of black tea, the wine smooth and rich. This pulls it all together; and puts it on a solid foundation of mineral and graphite. — P.G. (9/1/2006)

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WillaKenzie Estate 2003 Terres Basses Pinot Noir

Price $55

The most depth and weight of the lineup; black cherry and blackberry fruit holds down a solid, sweet center. The tannins are ripe and full, and the wine has an appealing roundness. — P.G. (9/1/2006)

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WillaKenzie Estate 2004 Triple Black Slopes Pinot Noir

Price $55

The name refers to the vineyard’s unusually steep slopes. The reward for farming such difficult terrain, the owners believe, is complexity, character and concentration. That is certainly the case in 2004, as this is the most dense and focused of the six WillaKenzie releases. It’s built upon a solid foundation of black cherry fruit, but elevated with herb, acid and… — P.G. (11/15/2007)

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WillaKenzie Estate 2004 Terres Basses Pinot Noir

Price $55

This is outstanding Pinot, from a vineyard yielding a miserly one ton per acre. Unfined and unfiltered, this dark, deeply-flavored wine offers scents and tastes of cut tobacco wrapped into rich blueberry fruit. Long and complex, it rewards your attention with notes of bitter chocolate and citrus rind as it winds through a lingering finish. — P.G. (11/15/2007)

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WillaKenzie Estate 2006 Triple Black Slopes Pinot Noir

Price $63

Certainly the best of WillaKenzie’s lineup in 2006, the Triple Black Slopes Pinot Noir brings a density and focus, coupled with riper, darker fruits and appealing minerality, that is missing from its stable mates. There is a delicious core of black cherry fruit, notes of baking spice, cinnamon and toast; but it is the fruit that shines here—still young, compact and… — P.G. (12/15/2009)

Most Reviewed Designations

Aliette Emery Estate Cuvée Estelle Kiana Pierre Leon Pierre Leon Vineyard Terres Basses Triple Black Slopes

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Chardonnay Gamay Gamay Noir Pinot Blanc Pinot Grigio Pinot Gris Pinot Meunier Pinot Noir

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