Our top-selling Pinot Noir, from a landmark vintage
- 92 pts Wine Spectator92 pts WS
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2021 Solena Estate Pinot Noir Grande Cuvée Willamette Valley 750 ml
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Winemaker Laurent Montalieu’s custom cuvées have fetched $200+ at the Willamette Valley Pinot Noir Auction, and he tapped some of the same vineyards that go into his top bottlings for this 2021 Grande Cuvée. Fans of silky Pinots are going to have a field day with this one: It flaunts the fruit vibrancy that has landed its predecessors in Wine Spectator’s Top 100 but has even more concentration, born of low-yielding sites and tiny grape clusters—which merited a 92-point score from Spectator.
Grande Cuvée is the Pinot that led us to rethink the term “quality-to-price ratio” and start saying “quality-to-price disparity” instead. The 2021, from a landmark year, has it all: balance, deep red fruit, cleansing acidity, and a personality that makes it hard to put that cork back in.
Montalieu’s uncanny ability to consistently deliver Pinot greatness owes much to his access to prime Willamette Valley fruit. Over his three decades in Oregon, he’s put together an impressive collection of vineyards, guaranteeing that grapes that could compose expensive vineyard-designate Pinots instead find their way into the Grande Cuvée.
With dry conditions and low yields, 2021 also promises to be a landmark year for Willamette Valley wines, with one veteran winemaker saying, “It will certainly rank as one of our top five vintages. It’s certainly a great vintage in the making and I don’t say that lightly.”
It all adds up to one of the most-overperforming Pinots you'll find.