The Eyrie Vineyards Roland Green Pinot Noir, Dundee Hills, USA 2021

Roland Green Pinot Noir 2021 is a beautifully nuanced and site-driven expression of Dundee Hills Pinot Noir from one of Oregon's most historic and influential estates. Named after longtime vineyard manager Roland Green, this special bottling honors the individual whose stewardship helped shape Eyrie's vineyards for decades. Sourced from a distinctive block within the Dundee Hills, the 2021 vintage reflects both the warmth of the growing season and Eyrie's signature commitment to elegance, transparency, and age-worthiness. Aromas of wild strawberry, red cherry, cranberry, rose petal, orange peel, and baking spice are layered with notes of forest floor, tea leaf, and earthy minerality. The palate is vibrant and finely detailed, offering silky tannins, bright natural acidity, and remarkable balance between fruit, savory complexity, and structure. Subtle oak integration allows the vineyard character to shine, while a long, graceful finish underscores the wine's pedigree. Delicate yet persistent, this is a quintessential Eyrie Pinot Noir that captures the purity, finesse, and sense of place that have made the estate a benchmark for Oregon wine.

"The 2021 Pinot Noir Roland Green possesses the expressiveness, detail and weightlessness of the best wines from the 2021 vintage in the Willamette Valley. The nose is a deep well of red cherry jam, cranberry, tea leaves, lavender and alpine spices, revealing additional nuances with each return to the glass. The palate features complex, spicy, conifer-laced flavors structured by finely astringent tannins and vibrant acidity, and it has a very long, layered finish." Wine Advocate 96