Beaux Freres, The Upper Terrace Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley

Really great. Tons off red fruit. Great acidity. KL auction buy.

2017 vintage

Red currant & cherry on the nose. Raspberry and cassis flavors with nice smooth structure. Long finish

2018 vintage

Really hot the first day- gassed and set aside. Came back 2 days later and really good. That’s today’s rating. Maybe we should have opened hours before on first pour. Loved it tonight

2018 vintage

Coravined. Not so deep rosy ruby color. Red currant, pomegranate, and subtle soy sauce. Very dry, smooth palate. Firm tannins on the long finish. Tasted this with my friend Ian at the winery. It was very shy. Absolutely needs a two hour decant. It was hard to judge this, so take my notes with a grain of salt.

2018 vintage

great BF nice fruity nose typical strawberries and Cherry same tastes very light bodied with full flavors smoooth finish Drinking well now seems like it could last a few years

2017 vintage

Beaux free mouth feel. Almost effervescence. Red fruit rose petals lighter balance. Very nice

2017 vintage

This PN shows a lot of winemaking techniques I ordinarily do not like. But instead of angering me, it presents as more of a charming time capsule. The baby boomer generation actually made an ageable PN. Wow! Juniper berries, allspice, orange peel, cedar, smoke, vanilla, macerated red cherries and macerated raspberries on the nose. Smells much younger than 22, with a high intensity of aromas. The new French oak influence is obvious, which gives this an especially "early 2000s" feeling. …

2003 vintage

Red berries and cherry, but already baked. A little bit of fugue. Dry herbed and subdued spices. Overall subtle but quite complex. Very fine tertiary - soy sauce/pickles?. Surprisingly intense and long palate, disarming freshness

2017 vintage

Wonderful

2017 vintage

Right out of the bottle this wine was absolutely stellar. Perfect body and silky, long finish with complementing freshness. My dinner companion and I were stunned by the beauty of this wine. However, after a couple hours it appears to loose much of the stellar palate - not sure if it was because of the food pairings or the Beaune we compared it too.

2017 vintage

on of the better new world pinots I have had in a while -fruit was more raspberry than cherry

2017 vintage

Still wound up a bit on PNP. Red cherry & sous bois. Has relaxed and opened up quite a bit on second day. Some rose petal and a hint of rooibos tea. A nice citrusy note on the finish.

2017 vintage

A very nice Pinot Almost has some effervescence. Cherry, strawberry and a touch of rose petal. I would drink now. Pleasant but not earth shattering.

2017 vintage

Strawberry and earthy nose. Tart strawberry, earth, sassafras, and herbs

2017 vintage

delivers raspberry and cherry in waves, with enough minerality to keep energy.

2018 vintage

Despite my last tasting note, we drank this bottle within a month of the last one and had a very different experience. Loads of layered flavors of raspberry and cherry with notes of pine and other forest scents along with a bit of rosemary and lavender. No smoky taste , even though all 3 bottles we had received were from the same case.

2017 vintage

Just too much Brett for me. And not worth the money.

2017 vintage

A really good wine, except… It had a very noticeable smokiness to it that detracted from what I have experienced in the past with Beaux Freres wines. The depth and complexity were there but were competing for attention. I think I’ll wait a while before drinking my last bottle.

2017 vintage

Subtle, but detectable, nose on this lovely Ribbon Ridge pinot noir. Silky palate with long, well balanced, finish. Just a great wine.

2017 vintage

This wine is in a great place. Gorgeous tartness to it. Lighter in color as expected. Very nice wine.

2017 vintage

Same as the other bottles I’ve had. Very nice Burgundian style Pinot. Smooth with dark fruit and strawberry, earth and nice acidity. Good acidity, suggests it can age longer too. Very nice.

2018 vintage

wonderful pinot with great balance and concentration with dominant strawberry notes

2018 vintage

Beautiful dry and clean Burgundian style, red cherries, hints of barnyard, fine tannins. Not a luscious as the blue label but delightful and complex. Drink now!

2018 vintage

I agree with DAVED. I believe wine reviews sometimes get bumped in points because of a big bump in price. Either that, or this wine, while excellent, isn't worth its price point.

2017 vintage

Dinner at Gramercy Tavern with work colleagues. Brought a 3L from my cellar, decanted by the somm 3 hours in advance. Dark, translucent ruby color. Nose showing dark red fruits, earth notes, rose hip. Palate was black raspberry, cranberry, black tea, Christmas spice. Red fruits, cranberry through the mid palate. Elegant texture. Medium body, medium/long finish. Really great showing, went well with a seasonal tasting menu at GT. Large format aging nicely, I was probably a bit early on this. …

2017 vintage

Deep color, nice aroma

2017 vintage

Step up from last bottle. Super smooth. Decanted through an Ullo filter.

2017 vintage

Popped and poured. Black cherry with raspberry leaf and creamy parsley/cilantro in the glass. Followed in the mouth by a solid core of concentrated red berries. Persistent but primary and lacking in complexity. Creaminess and minerality cancelling each other out. A 'right down the middle' Pinot Noir with a lousy QPR. Good enough pairing with pan roasted duck breast with a blueberry reduction but best to move on, nothing much to see here.

2018 vintage

cherry red with slight but nice nose, forward of fruit but very short mid followed by a long muted finish

2017 vintage

Drinking great now, but will age nicely for 5 more years or so.

2017 vintage

excellent but not extraordinary

2017 vintage

shouod have decanted for at least an hour, when it finally opened up. a little tart at the finish, but still a pleasant Pinot.

2018 vintage

Lovely and graceful, raspberry and light cherry notes with a bit of underbrush earthiness on the finish.

2017 vintage

Open and lively, you can get the shift to Willamette. Well done. Tasty

2018 vintage

delicious...

2017 vintage

Really enjoying these. Darker color but lighter weight, nice nose, not deep but has a long finish. I get a typical BF profile here. I think the Ribbon Ridge wines are some of the best in the Willamette Valley.

2017 vintage

Consistent with prior tastings. Excellent.

2018 vintage

Just as in 22 an absolutely delicious wine.

2017 vintage

Opened beautifully after 30 minutes. Rich, textured style.

2018 vintage

2 hours in a decanter and this barely budged, at about 3 hours it began to open up nicely. I will wait a few years before drinking my other bottles. Typical powerful BF style.

2017 vintage

With MM. Didn't expect much beyond a flavor bomb but it was excellent. We both looked at it and said, "wow."

2017 vintage

Distinct green notes which eventually blew off after a two hour decant and more time in the glass. At that point, a typical BF wine was revealed. Don't know what happened in 2017, but this is the third bottle with the same results. More stems, immatue grapes? Not pleasing to me.

2017 vintage

Nice floral nose with red fruit and violets. Medium bodied, fine tannins, feels a little soft in the mid-pallet.

2018 vintage

Nose of cherries and herbs. Palate of spring cherries, raspberries and fox berry with high acid mid palate. Great with bbq veal and veggies.

2017 vintage

I really liked this with burgers and chips. Red fruit, cedar, hint of vanilla. This has a nice tartness with fresh red fruit. This is very food friendly and would go with a variety of food.

2017 vintage

Really wonderful! Delicious full tart cherries, very smooth tannins. Steak on the grill and pop and pour!

2017 vintage

gorgeous color, nice aroma, deeper than color suggests, long finish, solid

2017 vintage

Decanted >1 hour. Side by side with a Domaine Serene Mark Bradford. BF was much smoother with more flavor. The consensus winner.

2017 vintage

Good. Drinking beautifully now. Black Cherry plenty of acidity and a long finish. Beaux Freres wine are consistently excellent and this is no exception.

2017 vintage

Color has life with amber shade. Sweet strawberry nose hint of passing funk, sherry. Taste is palate coating ripe, off sweet and fresh fruit edge of acidity. Who am I to ascribe a score to a 20-year-old Oregon Pinot that mocks time?

2003 vintage

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Beaux Freres, The Upper Terrace Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley

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