Day Wines Willamette Valley Cancilla Vineyard Pinot Noir 2014
This is a small production single vineyard designated label of just 250 cases from producer/winemaker Brianne Day of Day Wines, a natural wine producer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley AVA. She is involved in Day Camp, Willamette Valley’s newest winemaking cooperative, a collective home of eleven small producers, including Day Wines,
Fruit for this label is sourced from Cancilla Vineyard, owned and organically dry farmed by Ken Cancilla. The vineyard, identified as source to several producers' labels, is a 20 acre former Christmas tree farm just north of the Yamhill-Carlton AVA in the north-western Willamette Valley. The vineyard sits close to the Coast Range, exactly halfway between Tillamook and Portland. This proximity provides access to coastal rain water.
This 2015 vintage year was exceptionally warm producing especially ripe fruit. The resulting wine was noted by the winemaker as robust and full, with acid & tannins and spicy and floral aromas and flavors in the wine like cinnamon, sweet spices, and black pepper.
Day Wines Willamette Valley Cancilla Vineyard Pinot Noir 2014
This was opaque garnet colored, medium bodied with dusty rose, leather and tangy black cherry tones accented by notes of cinnamon spice and pepper.
RM 87 points.
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http://www.daywines.com/
This is a small production single vineyard designated label of just 250 cases from producer/winemaker Brianne Day of Day Wines, a natural wine producer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley AVA. She is involved in Day Camp, Willamette Valley’s newest winemaking cooperative, a collective home of eleven small producers, including Day Wines,
Day has lived in the
Willamette Valley since she was 16 where she was attracted to the orderliness and vibrancy of the vineyards which she found exotic.
While working as a bookkeeper in her 20's, she saved
money to travel throughout the
world’s wine regions. For almost two years she explored wine regions and their wines learning as much as she could with a the intent on becoming a winemaker. After studying in Community
College she worked in France, New Zealand and Argentina, before returning to
Oregon and to work in and learn the wine business. She
worked for producers The Eyrie Vineyards, Brooks Winery, Grochau Cellars, Belle Pente, and
Scott Paul and at Storyteller Wine Company where she learned the
retail side of the wine world. She worked as a server and sold barrels for Bordeaux cooperage, Saury,
which introduced her to many winemakers
throughout the Willamette Valley.
In 2012, she was offered the chance to buy fruit from a friend's family’s vineyard. She did so and started out making 125 cases of
single vineyard Pinot Noir that gained the attention of distributors in
Chicago and New York City. Since that first vintage, Day Wines has
grown from 125 cases in 2012 to 5,000 cases in 2017 and are now distributed in twelve states and three countries.
This 2015 vintage year was exceptionally warm producing especially ripe fruit. The resulting wine was noted by the winemaker as robust and full, with acid & tannins and spicy and floral aromas and flavors in the wine like cinnamon, sweet spices, and black pepper.
Day Wines Willamette Valley Cancilla Vineyard Pinot Noir 2014
This was opaque garnet colored, medium bodied with dusty rose, leather and tangy black cherry tones accented by notes of cinnamon spice and pepper.
RM 87 points.
https://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=2238946
http://www.daywines.com/
