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The Wine Advocate - 2019 Wines
USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley: Sneak Peek at the 2019s
by Erin Brooks
2019 Seven Springs Chardonnay - The 2019 Chardonnay Seven Springs Vineyard has lush, inviting aromas of apple pie, quince paste, honeysuckle and pastry with tones of beeswax and hay. The palate is textural and weighty with a juxtaposition of flinty character and broader, honeyed notes, and it finishes with great length. It's dangerously easy to drink!
96 Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, December 2021
2019 Audeant Pinot Noir - Made with about 20% whole clusters, the 2019 Pinot Noir is intensely scented of blackberries and dark red cherries with notes of iron, blood orange, aniseed and cured meats. The palate is concentrated and alluringly broody, with intense, iron-laced fruit. It has a seamless structure, with grainy tannins supporting the full flavors, and it finishes with great length.
95 Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, December 2021
2019 Luminous Hills Vineyard Pinot Noir - The 2019 Pinot Noir Luminous Hills Vineyard has a medium ruby-purple color and intense aromas of cranberries and blueberries, Angostura bitters, tea leaves, earth and woodsmoke. The palate is uplifted and silky, with intense, perfumed flavors and an ethereal finish. It offers power, structure and broody fruits in a very approachable frame. This will be released in the spring of 2022.
94 Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, December 2021
2019 Nysa Vineyard Pinot Noir - The 2019 Pinot Noir Nysa Vineyard comes from more than 30-year-old, own-rooted vines on an east-facing slope in the Dundee Hills, part of the original Domaine Drouhin property, planted to Pommard, Wadenswil and Dijon clone vines. Medium ruby, it's nuanced and layered on the nose, with tar, cured meats and pepper and a core of wild blackberries. The palate is elegant and seamless, opening from savory to floral tones and finishing with an uplifted, ethereal quality. This will be released in the spring of 2022.
96 Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, December 2021
The Wine Advocate - 2018 Wines
by Erin Books
2018 Seven Springs Chardonnay - The 2018 Chardonnay Seven Springs Vineyard offers intense aromas of quince, honeycomb and jasmine, while the palate is satiny and delicate with mineral-laced flavors, addicting freshness and a long, understated finish. This classy, energetic wine will benefit from another year or two in bottle.
-92+ Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, December 2020
2018 Audeant Pinot Noir - The 2018 Pinot Noir has a medium ruby color and pretty scents of dried herbs and dusty earth with bright blue and red berry fruit. Medium-bodied, it floods the mouth with intense, earth-laced fruits, expertly grainy and fresh and finishing very long and layered.
-92 Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, December 2020
2018 Luminous Hills Vineyard Pinot Noir - The 2018 Pinot Noir Luminous Hills Vineyard unfolds slowly to blood orange, tar and earth. The medium-bodied palate is grainy and juicy with bright, earth-laced fruits and an uplifted finish.
-91 Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, December 2020
2018 Nysa Vineyard Pinot Noir -Medium ruby, the 2018 Pinot Noir Nysa Vineyard has layered aromas of red and black berries, dried herbs and pepper with hints of floral perfume and loads of underlying spices. Medium-bodied, it floods the mouth with intense, perfumed fruits, gently grainy and very fresh, with a long, flavorful finish.
-93 Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, December 2020
2017 Top Performer - The Wine Advocate
Searching for Hidden Gems from Willamette Valley's 2017 Vintage
by Erin Brooks
Among all wineries reviewed, Audeant was included in an exclusive list of the Top Performers in 2017. We were also mentioned as a name to watch in the future.
“Audeant's Pinot Noirs offer unique profiles across the portfolio and are aromatically singular and generous, with beautifully energetic, long-lingering flavors. If this second iteration of Audeant is any indication of what's to come, this is a name to watch.” – Erin Brooks
2017 Audeant Pinot Noir: Medium ruby, the 2017 Pinot Noir very slowly offers up scents of dried leaves, moss and graphite over a core of smoked cranberries and red currants with dried flowers and amaro notes coming through with time in the glass. Medium-bodied, it offers a good interplay of fresh fruit and earthy nuance in the mouth, framed by grainy tannins and juicy freshness and finishing long and nuanced. 425 cases were made.
-92+ Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, April 2020.
The 2017 Pinot Noir Luminous Hills Vineyard has a medium ruby-purple color and lush fruits—blackberry, marionberry, blueberry and boysenberry—with notes of loamy earth, peppercorn, bacon fat, allspice, clove and oodles of violet perfume. The medium-bodied palate is silky, spicy and intense with a grainy, fresh frame and long, densely flavored finish. This will reward another few years in bottle. 186 cases were made.
-93 Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, April 2020
Medium ruby-purple, the 2017 Pinot Noir Nysa Vineyard takes its time to open to baked blackberries, blueberries and marionberries with notes of earth, laurel, violet, bergamot, peppercorn and prosciutto. Medium-bodied and silky, it offers intense flavor layers and a classy frame, finishing full of freshness, energy and nuanced flavors. 194 cases were made.
-93 Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, April 2020.
The 2017 Rosé of Pinot Noir spent six days on the skins without sulfur or pump-overs. It has a deep orange color and a pretty nose of crushed raspberries, white strawberries, tangerine and lemon peel with accents of cured meats, dried leaves, potpourri and peaches. Light to medium-bodied, it floods the mouth with generous flavor layers, from savory and berries through to honeycomb, with juicy acidity and a very long, textured finish. This is a serious, generous rosé with addicting depth of aromas and flavors. 72 cases were made.
-92 Erin Brooks, The Wine Advocate, April 2020.
Vinous Review - August 2020
Oregon Pinot Noir: The Winning Streak Continues
by Josh Raynolds
Three Audeant wines from the 2017 vintage were recently reviewed by renowned wine critic Josh Raynolds of Vinous for his annual Oregon Report. We were delighted to have been featured amongst a long list of heavy-hitting peers that have been making beautiful wines in the Willamette Valley for decades. Read below to see what Josh had to say about Audeant:
2017 Audeant Pinot Noir | 92 Points Vinous
Ripe red and dark berries, candied rose, smoky minerals and baking spices on the deeply perfumed nose. Juicy, subtly sweet and expansive on the palate, the 2017 offers bitter cherry, blackberry and floral pastille flavors that turn spicier as the wine opens up. Closes smoky, juicy, seamless and long, with resonating spiciness and rounded, even tannins contributing subtle grip. 30% whole clusters.
2017 Luminous Hills Vineyard Pinot Noir | 93 Points Vinous
An expansive bouquet evokes ripe blue fruits, potpourri, candied licorice and exotic spices, along with hints of succulent herbs and cola. Sappy and penetrating in the mouth, offering intense boysenberry, black raspberry, cherry and floral pastille flavors sharpened by smoky mineral and peppery spice flourishes. Fine-grained tannins build through a very long, floral-driven finish that echoes the cola note.
2017 NYSA Vineyard Pinot Noir | 94 Points Vinous
Powerfully scented aromas of cherry liqueur, boysenberry, candied flowers and exotic spices, along with a subtle mineral element that builds in the glass. Stains the palate with alluringly sweet, spice-tinged red and blue fruit flavors that possess a suave blend of richness and energy. Polished tannins build slowly on the very long, floral- and spice-accented finish, which leaves juicy berry and candied lavender notes behind.