Panther Creek Lazy River Vineyard Pinot Noir 2015 | Big Bold Beautiful Red – Ready now!

Panther Creek Lazy River Vineyard Pinot Noir 2015 displays Brilliant ruby-red to the rim. Sourced entirely from the Lazy River Vineyard in the brilliant Yamhill-Carlton AVA.  While revealing a lavish bouquet of black cherry fruit, sweet spices, and cherry blossoms. Sumptuous earthy notes on entry mingle with terrifically ripe black cherry, boysenberry.  In addition complex Indian spices tinged with cocoa, vanilla, and cedar.   Yet poised, with fine, savory tannins, and lifting acidity.  Most fo all drinking superbly well now.   And from a vintage that will deliver rewards if kept another 5-10 years in a cool, dark cellar.

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93WE Editors’ Choice | Always a top cuvée and good value, this brings tight, sharply defined fruit flavors that run from banana and coconut to peach and papaya, all clustered around a core of blackberry and black cherry. Panther Creek Lazy River Vineyard Pinot Noir 2015 delivers impressive length and detail.

Yamhill-Carlton AVA

At the Lazy River Vineyard, on the steep south-facing slope of Mt. Richmond in the Willamette’s Yamhill-Carlton sub-appellation, Rynders meticulously tended Pinot Noir planted on Jory soils. The phenomenal 2015 growing season largely mirrored 2014, with one major exception.  Notably, above-average temperatures in the spring allowed for early bloom and exceptional fruit-set, which led to an early harvest overall.  With Wine Spectator reporting that “there’s no precedent for a vintage exactly like this in Oregon.

As Robert Parker has advised, “Panther Creek wines are Oregon’s most beautifully packaged and also the most concentrated and age-worthy wines now being made in Oregon”—never more so than with today’s Panther Creek Lazy River Vineyard Pinot Noir 2015

Winemaker Tony Rynders

So Tony Rynders has spent the past 20 vintages developing his winemaking skills.  Notably while at some of the best wineries in Oregon, Washington, California, Italy, and Australia.  As a result, now recognized as one of America’s most highly acclaimed winemakers. Tony works with many varietals, including Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Syrah, Cabernet, Merlot, Sangiovese, and Viognier, plus sparkling wines and aromatic white varieties. “In every wine I create, my goal is to express each vineyard’s unique personality,” comments Tony.