2014 | Evening Land | Seven Springs La Source Pinot Noir

Firm and focused, with powdery tannins around a lively core of rose petal-infused raspberry and blackberry flavors, gliding into a long and expressive finish marked by minerally notes of wet stone.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2014 Pinot Noir la Source Seven Springs Vineyard is pale to medium ruby with a nose of green peppercorn and sliced prosciutto over forest floor and warm blackberries. Medium-bodied, it gives lovely meaty flavors in the mouth with leafy accents, a very firm frame of grainy tannins and juicy acidity, finishing long and minerally.

• Wine & Spirits: La Source comes from the highest point of Seven Springs, and takes advantage of some of its shallowest soils. This is Raj Parr and Sashi Moorman’s first start-to-finish effort after taking over the winemaking of Evening Land’s Oregon wines in January 2014. Despite some concern about stem ripeness, they used 25 percent whole clusters in La Source, and the resulting wine feels effortless and complete. The spice is tea-like and, at first, demonstrative; then the fruit pulls into view and the wine is suddenly airborne, twirling like a dancer, the exuberance of the fruit reined in by the stems, the stems’ assertions mellowed by fruit—the dance itself a deft measure of the wine’s complexity. Packed with flavor, the wine feels weightless all the same.

Producer Information

Evening Land Vineyards is a Californian wine producer, located just south of Portland in Oregon. It specializes in producing high-quality wines from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the estate vineyards which are planted in the Eola-Amity Hills AVA (American Viticultural Area). The estate is based around the Seven Springs vineyard, which was first planted in 1982. The east-facing slopes here, at approximately 2300 feet (700 meters) above sea level provides a favourable altitude for viticulture. The iron-rich volcanic soils that cover the hill have long proved a good terroir for Pinot Noir, which makes up the bulk of production. Evening Land was founded in 2005, and since then, has expanded to also include mulitple vineyards in the Sonoma County appellation. Evening Land makes a range of both single-vineyard and blended wines. Although Oregon is most famous for producing high-quality Pinot Noir, the flagship from the wine portfolio is the Summum Chardonnay which is produced from a small plot of carefully selected estate vineyards. There is multiple Pinot Noir wines produced by Evening Land. A majority of which are fermented in oak with the use of indigenous yeasts, before they are aged in oak for up to 16 months – although the entry-level releases see no oak at all. A Beaujolais-style wine from Gamay Noir, which goes through carbonic fermentation is also included in the collection.

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