Palate
Shea’s distinctive site always shows through in the wine, offering plenty of fine tannin and black fruits with notes of earth, pepper and minerals leaving no doubt about this wines provenance.
Growing Conditions
The long cool down of the at the end of the 2011 growing season allowed for full and complex layers producing brilliant flavors with elevated classic Burgundian notes and moderate alcohol. We don't always receive the weather that Burgundy get, the fluctuations in the vintage are captured gracefully from this miraculous vintage. Consisting of 140 dry-farmed hillside acres, Shea is located in Oregon’s sub-appellation which is situated in a rainshadow where storms often miss, leaving excellent dry conditions for Pinot Noir. The soil is characterized by shallow sedimentary Willakenzie topsoil over fractured sandstone subsoil.
