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    2018 Hyland Estates Pinot Noir Single Vineyard Old Vine McMinnville Willamette Valley 750 ml

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    We Were Believers Before It Went Into Bottle

    Last year, our whirlwind visit through the Willamette Valley ended in one of our favorite places in Oregon Pinot country: the cellar of our friend Laurent Montalieu, a man with several Wine Spectator Top 100 Pinots under his belt, and whose Soléna and Hyland Pinots light up the Wine Access scoreboard every year with dozens of perfect five-star member reviews. As one member aptly put it: “Hyland never disappoints. Solid year after year.”

    We couldn’t help but agree during our last meeting with Laurent, as we meandered from barrel to barrel with glass in hand, soaking up the cellar’s cool oak-and-Pinot aromatics and following Laurent—until he looked back and realized he’d lost us. We hadn’t moved, and were still lingering around his barrel of 2018 Single Vineyard Old Vine Pinot. 

    Made from all-estate fruit from the property that has supplied stars like Beaux Frères, Penner-Ash, Antica Terra, and Bergström, the 2018 Old Vine Pinot beguiled us with its deep ruby color, heady aromatics atop red fruit and cherry pie aromas, and unmistakable old-vine density and concentration. We were smitten, and could have stood there sipping all day. 

    Laurent turned back, poured us another couple of ounces from his thief, and by the time the elegant tea-like tannins of taste number two were fading on our tongues, we’d made him swear he’d send us a few bottles. When we tasted them at our Napa office—well away from the intoxicating atmosphere of Laurent’s Willamette Valley barrel room—we called him up, ready to go to bat for our members. 

    Without even breaking out the big guns—that is, reminding Laurent how the Wine Access faithful have taken home his Pinots by the pallet—we scored a fantastic deal on this Single Vineyard Old Vine Estate Pinot. You can thank yourselves, Wine Access’s loyal Pinot Noir lovers, for staying in Laurent’s good graces. Now enjoy the Pinot that made believers out of us before it even went into the bottle. 

    The Hyland Vineyard is one of the closest things Oregon has to a Grand Cru site. In fact, at the 1985 Burgundy Challenge in Paris, Hyland fruit led the way in a blind-tasting competition that saw panelists unable to differentiate between the Pinot Noirs from Oregon and Burgundy. To the astonishment of the wine world, three Oregon wines garnered higher point totals than the Burgundies. The common denominator among these game-changing Pinots? They all sourced fruit from the Hyland Vineyard.

    Laurent acquired the vineyard in 2007, and since then, it’s been integral in his overdelivering Pinots. Many of Hyland’s Pinot Noir vines are now approaching 50 years old, which gives this Pinot the gorgeous concentration that bewitched us in the barrel room, and we know will please your palate every time you take a sip.