Soter, Mineral Springs Ranch Pinot Noir, Yamhill-Carlton

Wonderful Willamette Valley Pinot. Rich deep dark red fruit, lasting tannins and smooth as silk finish.

2021 vintage

Darker fruit profile with a balanced structure and a nice finish. Excellent food wine, and OK as a sipper with a good decant. Probably better in a year or so. Needs a bit of time or air to be at its best. Some upside potential.

2021 vintage

We opened this as a late bottle after a LARGE tasting flight, while I made cheeseburgers. Even with a torched palate and limited capacity for note-taking, this was clearly gorgeous wine. Classic top Oregon...pure bing cherry, maybe some bright pine needle, wet stone, highly perfumed, gentle little weight to it. Not complex yet, but not closed. Wish I could have taken more detailed notes- my first time with Soter. Clear upswing ahead, too.

2021 vintage

Solid Willamette Pinot. Rich deep red fruit, touches of spice and long finish

2021 vintage

Drop dead gorgeous aromas of highly spiced wild blackberry, spring flowers and cranberry. Cherry juice. Wild, really lively earth and dark fruit covering the red fruit. Very dense rocks and stone with some earth layered by silk. Finish sails on for quite a long time. So primary so I will try to hide my other bottles for at least 2 years but it will be challenging. I would like to have more of this in my glass right now.

2021 vintage

Juicy and lively and sophisticated. Good stuff. Really darn good.

2021 vintage

Beautiful!

2009 vintage

Dark color. Dark cherries on nose. Very rich, structured with great balance of fruit and soft tannins. long finish..Love the wine. No hurry to open the next bottle.

2007 vintage

Soft but plenty of structure. Balanced with stone fruit and slight heat of alcohol. Pairs well with pork.

2009 vintage

Dark...dark cherry, spice...very well balanced...smooth as silk...enjoyed by all.

2007 vintage

Willamette Immersion Seminar - Nicely aged wines - short notes (Allison Inn, Newberg Oregon) : Medium ruby color. Vibrant red fruits, black tea and cedar on the nose. Palate of bright red fruit, spice herb/underbrush, rose pastille(?). Medium weight, long and layered finish. May be at its peak... This was one of the stars of the show for me, would have been nice to spend more time with this...really nicely structured and well aged.

2007 vintage

Has really come together well!

2007 vintage

Smells great - bright, fresh berry compote meets provincial herbs. The palate is very fruit forward leading with a mix of berries, candied and sweet, but balanced against burnt orange and spice - clove, cinnamon, savory herbs and white pepper. Light acidity, resolved tannins, it finishes juicy with a lingering peppery spice. Better than two years since our last bottle (and five from the first) I'm impressed with how consistent my notes have been. I don't think this bottle has …

2009 vintage

Medium Ruby color. Forthcoming nose of cherry, spice, toasty oak which with further air yields additional complexity and ripe fruit. Medium bodied palate with soft tannins and dark fruit. Long, long balanced spice finish. Initially light sediment was decanted off. The wine continued development with additional air. Too bad it was consumed so rapaidly. There is considerably more life left in this wine but it is great now. Fantastic!

2009 vintage

Got into this because another taster mentioned it may have past peak. That wasn't our experience. It's getting close, but still on the way up, with the expectation of more secondaries yet to develop. The color and palate are still youthful, and there's an acidity that could use a couple years to integrate. The fruit (cherry/plum) still leads, but a couple hours in revealed soy sauce & carmelized brown sugar notes, and the mouth transitioned to a more savory character. …

2009 vintage

very dark but not alcoholic wine. Dominated by licorice and pepper and the darkest fruit imaginable it is only with meat and food this wine becomes approachable. After some air there is also sweetness but still the wine has a dryness and good balance. However I would not have said Pinot Noir if this had been tasted blindly.

2009 vintage

Really? Another Garagiste story

2009 vintage

Rounding up here as I recognize I don't normally embrace the Willamette take on Pinot. In that style, this is a decent wine, although a bit past age here. Acidity is dull and fruit has subsided. There is little terroir and secondary nuances are barely there...but the wine is well integrated; fruit is a light plum almost a hoisin sauce kind of flavor. Tannins are lithe but linger through but the flavor profile. Sadly, I think while most my SC …

2009 vintage

Fine deep garnet. Savoury. Black cherry, bit of cranberry, earthy, beetroot. Tannins very much resolved. Fine acidity, fair length. Very nice drink, QPR a bit demanding though.

2009 vintage

Ditto last note.

2009 vintage

very tight upon opening, but in 30 minutes, it softened nicely, but still with great acidity and very intense flavors.

2009 vintage

Classic Oregon Pinot.

2009 vintage

Almost exactly a year since the last bottle, the acidity has dialed back as has the red fruit, and I found the baking notes to be much more prominent - notes of almond, yeast and crusty bread, it's very tasty. I didn't pick up the citrus notes this go around but the bright notes of fresh Oregon strawberries and tart red raspberry still persist, but the bottle enjoys a nicer level of balance. I think this has longer to go …

2009 vintage

Red raspberry and a bit of cherry. Still fresh, fruity but firm, with good acidity and playfulness. Well made.

2009 vintage

Wow. Not too impressed immediately after opening , however on day 2 spectacular. Such balance. Dark cherry , earth , floral notes. Silky smooth. Soft tannins. Good lift on the finish. Lively wine.

2007 vintage

really nice domestic pinot. good fruit that was nicely balanced by a bit of earthy, savory undertones and a nice structured finish. the lingering fruit on the finish was really beautiful with the meal. as others noted, seems to be in a great drinking spot as the tannins are nice and soft and the acidity is well integrated.

2009 vintage

As others have commented this is in a really good spot right now, though some air time helps. At open the profile on the nose was all the usually dark fruit suspects - blackberries and plums, beautifully sweet. About an hour and a half on the profile was richer and deeper, adding notes of charred meat, savory herbs and orange peel to balance the fruit. There's a nice green funk too. The palate is fruit driven, more blackberries and blueberries …

2009 vintage

Great fruit expression on the nose and fore palate. A crowd pleaser, but a little lacking in complexity. Also, could use some acid, made in a bit of a CA style to emphasize fruit but not necessarily to its benefit.

2009 vintage

Ruby red, spices, and mineral - nicely balanced pinot. Didn't seem as high in alcohol as other Soters I've had.

2009 vintage

Bigger styled jammy fruit centric (vintage?!) simpler with not usual MSR depth and complexity.

2009 vintage

Great juice. Had with em on vday.

2009 vintage

Misschien iets minder dan vorige fles maar zeer goede pinot noir.

2007 vintage

Crowd pleaser. Not super complex, but yummy.

2009 vintage

Great as always. The fruit is a bit dialed back after some bottle age though it still remains bright with strawberries and raspberries, and notes of fresh cut flowers. It's just pretty to smell. Dry and nicely acidic. Sweet red fruits at the forefront of the palate, finishing with subtly tart notes of orange peel. Perfect start to Christmas.

2009 vintage

Black cherry, currant and rose on the nose. Medium bodied and very pleasantly smooth and integrated through the middle. Black cherry and blackberry upfront with deeper notes of plum and currant behind. Seamless transition to the finish where it exhibits good length, nice structure and lasting mineral notes. I'm kind of surprised by the wide range of opinions on this wine and I suspect it showed quite differently when it was young. Drinking beautifully at present and no need to …

2009 vintage

Not sure what to make of this wine. Not bad, but certainly not great.

2007 vintage

A nice pinot noir. Deep dark medium body wine. Faint nose. Medium blackberry and plum fruit. Average finish. This was a good bottle but not a great bottle of wine.

2009 vintage

Deep dark red medium body wine. Good nose followed by complex blackberry fruit. Nice finish. Will be better in several more years.

2009 vintage

Corked. Shit.

2009 vintage

Good but not great. Dark red medium body. Nice plum fruit. Drinking well right now.

2009 vintage

I have been disappointed in this wine the last few years but not in this bottle. The mineral forward taste I had previously sipped is now submerged into a complex medley of plum, blackberry and cherry fruit. Very pleasing finish. This wine is on a road to be better in the next few years.

2009 vintage

TTTG Blind Pinot : Slightly weird, candied nose. Bright red fruit on entry with a hint of sweetness. Clipped, drying, slightly bitter finish. Just OK

2009 vintage

TTTG (Brian's House) : Dark strawberry and candied tones on the nose and entry, very fruit forward. The fruit dissipates rapidly in the middle to reveal a bitterly thin backside that carries through the short finish. This gives the illusion of strong acidity at the front but it gets washed out by the fleshy body in the middle. I really expected more out of this but came away with the impression of a manipulated wine. Average

2009 vintage

CT blind tasting group does new and old world Pinot (Brian's) : Not much here that's of interest; there's a faint yeasty note on top of red berried fruit, but there's a slightly confected, sweet edge to the fruit and what seems like a bit of lingering residual sugar. Not particularly interesting.

2009 vintage

Crisp salmon colored sparkling wine with strawberries and raspberries . Tart , mild hay and nice long finish

2009 vintage

Better on day 2. Really rich for the vintage. Great crushed sweet strawberries on the nose and palate. Deep earthy mushroom aromas. Nice stuff.

2007 vintage

Medium ruby with a hint of brown on the edge. Very expansive nose from the get go of cherry, earth, floral notes (? stems) touch of sous bois . Wonderful mouthfeel...fairly good depth. Red fruits. Soft tannins. Enjoyable now

2007 vintage

Odd meaty chicken aroma. Weird. Other than that, quite smooth and soft. The palate entry is lovely, with pretty red fruits. So pleasant in the mouth. Great texture; very soft and lightly sweet, but totally balanced and not too lean. Very lightly puckering on the wonderfully textured finish. Lingers very nicely. Soft and puckering, but pretty.

2009 vintage

From mag & delicious & gaining depth with age

2007 vintage

Yeasty, loads of acidity with some richness a med+ body, underripe strawberry palate, refreshing

2009 vintage

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