2022 Evesham Wood, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir "Eola-Amity Hills Cuvée"

While we’ve never compiled an official list of SommSelect’s most featured wineries, if we did, Evesham Wood would most certainly be near the top. Few other producers in the Willamette Valley (or anywhere else, for that matter) have so enthralled us year after year with their precision, complexity, and sheer beauty. A wine like today’s “Eola-Amity Hills Cuvée” is truly Oregon Pinot crafted in the Burgundian mold, with oodles of floral lift and sapid depth, its drink-me-now charm belying a seriously ageworthy core. We’d happily pour it alongside the most elite Pinot bottlings in the country. Yet, as seems to always be the case with Evesham Wood, the price remains blissfully low. If we had to offer one bottle to back up our conviction that the Willamette Valley remains the best region in the world for Pinot value, Evesham Wood’s “Eola-Amity Hills Cuvée” would almost certainly be it. The winery is a shoo-in for the SommSelect hall of fame, and this cuvée is a shoo-in for the “buy by the ca