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FRIDAY SIPS - Oregon Pinots from Vincent Wine Company

Today June 12 from 3:30 - 6:30

Drop by today to taste and meet Vincent Wine Comapny owner/winemaker Vincent Fritzche and taste through an outstanding lineup of deliciousness from one of the state's terrific small producers.




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2013 VINCENT WINE COMPANY PINOT NOIR
'EOLA-AMITY'
$19.99 BTL./$239.88 CASE


Vincent Wine Company is one of the emerging players in the Oregon Pinot world. Owner/winemaker Vincent Fritzche apprenticed in various Oregon and California operations before launching his own label in 2009. This guy is the epitome of the DIY spirit that is so overwhelmingly prominent here in Oregon and so much that this guy still holds down a day job along with making brilliant wines. We are excited to have this cat here today to pour his wines and the leadoff hitter is a very excellent entry level wine that specifically comes from the Eola-Amity appellation.

From Vincent: “As with our Ribbon Ridge AVA bottling in the fall, this blend includes all barrels produced from the Eola-Amity Hills AVA that did not make the cut for our single vineyard bottlings. Thus, this wine blends Crowley Station Vineyard with Zenith and Bjornson, including all the press wine, for a slightly softer, broad flavored wine for drinking over the next several years. This fragrant, medium bodied wine shows all the bright fruit of the 2013 growing season tempered by end of season cool weather that allowed for ripeness at moderate sugar levels in the grapes. Nine barrels.”




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2013 VINCENT WINE COMPANY PINOT NOIR
'BJORNSON VINEYARD'
$35.99 BTL./$431.88 CASE


From Vincent: “This year’s Bjornson Vineyard bottling continues our string of lovely wines from this emerging site. Thin, red volcanic soils here give a wine with more pronounced fruit and structure, with stronger than average acidity due to afternoon coastal winds that cool the vineyard at the peak of the day’s heat. This wine is a mix of mostly Pommard clone co-fermented with 25% Wadenswil clone of Pinot noir, aged in older oak barrels and bottled unfiltered. Two barrels.”




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2013 VINCENT WINE COMPANY PINOT NOIR
'ZENITH VINEYARD'
$35.99 BTL/$431.88 CASE


From Vincent: “Our .54 acre plot at Zenith is on a gentle south facing slope that was originally not planted in the 1980s because this area of the vineyard didn’t seem to have enough soil. Finally planted in 2002 to Pommard clone, this block produces a smaller than average yield of intensely flavored grapes, picked at moderate sugars for this warmer site. As with Bjornson, these grapes were picked on September 21, 2013, before the big rains we experienced at the end of September. Given a warm summer that tracked ahead of average all year, the fruit was just perfect and super clean at harvest, and we’re delighted with the balance of flavor and structure to enjoy now but also keep in the cellar for many years. Two barrels.”






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