Auteur 2008 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley Oregon

Auteur Winery

“…chewy, but beautifully focused to show off its ripe cherry, black pepper, tobacco and floral aromas and flavors on an open texture, deftly knit with fine tannins. Lingers effortlessly on the finish. Best from 2012 through 2018 – WS 92pts”.

Auteur concentrates on just two varietals, but produces them stunningly: Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from California and Oregon. Winemaker and owner Kenneth Juhasz and his wife and partner, Laura, believe that their success stems from selecting vineyards situated in cool climates as well as focusing on the masculine and feminine personalities of these two varietals. Auteur sources fruit from Willamette Valley, Sonoma Coast, Los Carneros, and Mendocino Ridge.

Type	Red
Varietal	Pinot Noir
Vintage	2008
Bottle size	750mL
Alcohol content	13.2%
Appellation	Oregon – Willamette Valley
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Auteur Winery
As a winemaker-driven brand, our focus and passion at AUTEUR is to create profound, pure and classic wines embodying each varietal’s masculine and feminine characteristics. To achieve this balance, we meticulously farm exceptional and unique vineyards in cool microclimates of coastal California and Oregon. Vineyard selection and understanding the individuality of these sites is critical to achieving true expression in our AUTEUR wines. Cool climate allows for a longer growing season to ensure optimal ripeness while maintaining natural acidity. Ensuring vine health in combination with proper stress, intense and early crop thinning in the growing season, and slight leaf shading, create fruit of great depth and concentration. As a result, extraction is effortless and cap manipulation can be kept to a minimum to retain aromatics and nuance. Every year presents its unique set of parameters that motivate and channel our energy to create the best wine while paying respect to the characteristics of each individual vintage and the fruit that was grown.