Arterberry Maresh Pinot Noir Dundee Hills 2018

Dundee Hills, Willamette Valley, Oregon

Third-generation winegrower Jim Maresh is fashioning some of the Willamette Valley’s finest and most sought-after wines. Maresh’s Dundee Hills cuvée, a blend of fruit from superb vineyards in the Dundee Hills AVA, sports a translucent pale garnet color in the glass followed by delicious aromas of wild strawberries, red raspberries, pie cherries, and cinnamon. Don’t let the wine’s light color fool you: its palate is packed with savory wild cherry and red raspberry fruit backed by suggestions of bay leaf, bitter orange peel, loamy earth, wood smoke, savory herbs, and cinnamon-spiked potpourri. Bright and tangy on the finish, fine, lip-smacking tannins emerge to lift the wine’s transparent kernel of red berry fruit and make this beauty ready for your table now and over the next six years. A very elegant example of Oregon’s 2017 vintage and a steal at its tariff, this wine is one to buy by the case to pair with broiled salmon, roast chicken, and grilled Portobello mushrooms.