2008 Bethel Heights Vineyard Pinot Noir Casteel Reserve Eola-Amity Hills – 93
($60) Complex, spice-accented bouquet displays raspberry preserves, cherry-cola, potpourri and smoky minerals. Energetic and precise on the palate, offering juicy red and dark berry flavors that show impressive depth and energy. Gains […]
2009 Bethel Heights Vineyard Pinot Noir Estate Grown – 92
($32) Light in texture and weight, but shows real presence with its strawberry and cherry fruit, with cinnamon and talcum overtones. Finishes with refinement and grace. Drink now through 2019.
2008 Bethel Heights Vineyard Pinot Noir Justice Vineyard – 89
($50) The Justice Vineyard is an Oregon Certified Sustainable wine, ensuring responsible growing and winemaking practices. This 2008 vintage’s cherry fruit, soft tannins, and fresh acidity balance out floral notes and deeper aromatics of leather and earth. Juicy and bright, […]
2009 Bethel Heights Estate Chardonnay – 94 (Best Buy)
Clean, mineral and savory, this pleasingly green-tinged white has just a hint of celery leaf that lends complexity to a dark lees note. The flavors remain on the savory side, the tone bright, lean and pure, with both the […]
2009 Bethel Heights Vineyard Pinot Noir Willamette Valley – 88
($28) Bethel Heights’ 2009 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley is medium ruby red in color with a nose of dried herbs, spice box, and black cherry. Sweetly-fruited, supple-textured, and nicely proportioned, this medium-long effort is meant for […]
2009 Bethel Heights Vineyard Chardonnay Estate Grown – 90
($25) Tangy and appealing for its tightly knit tangerine, pear and spice flavors, finishing with zip. Drink now through 2013.
2009 Bethel Heights Vineyard Pinot Noir Casteel Reserve – 93
($60) Firm in texture up front, with a mineral cast to the dark […]
2009 Bethel Heights Vineyard Pinot Noir Estate Grown Eola-Amity Hills – 90
($32) Dark red. Dark berries, sassafras and anise on the fragrant nose. Plush, expansive black raspberry and cherry flavors pick up spiciness with air and show very good energy. The sweet, enetrating finish clings with spicy intensity.
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2010 Bethel Heights Vineyard Pinot Noir Casteel Reserve – 92
Combining fruit from several sweet spots on their property (and reflecting two Dijon clones and a bit of Wadenswil), the Bethel Heights 2010 Pinot Noir Casteel Reserve displays a delightfully juicy and flower-bedecked amalgam of red and black currant, elderberry and cherry, […]
2010 Bethel Heights Vineyard Chardonnay Estate Grown – 90Fresh and lively, showing citrusy tamarind accents around a racy core of green pear fruit. Should benefit from a year or two in the cellar. Drink now through 2015.
2010 Bethel Heights Vineyard Pinot Noir Casteel Reserve – 94($60) Smooth, […]
Bethel Heights 2010 Eola-Amity Hills Casteel Reserve Pinot Noir – 94The wine marries place and vintage with effortless grace. Its generous dark cherry and plum scents flow into a seamless, to-the-rim fullness of flavor, grounded by a dark basalt minerality, which seems to give the wine energy […]
