Teutonic Crow Valley Pinot Noir 2023

This Willamette Valley Pinot is medium-bodied, with tart red fruit and bright acidity.

Old & Cold, High & Dry, Wood & Wild - that's what is says on the back label of Teutonic's Crow Valley Pinot Noir. The vines are old, the Gewurztraminer is 40+ years old! It's a cold site, the vineyard is dry-farmed (no irrigation) and the wine is fermented in neutral oak barrels and only wild yeast from the vineyard is used to ferment the wine. All these things put together make the wines reflective of Alpine wines of Northern Italy, Alsace France and The Mosel Valley in Germany.

Teutonic Wine Company was founded by Barnaby and Olga Tuttle in 2005. While their wines are inspired by the wines of the Middle-Mosel Valley in Germany and Alsace in France, they are a celebration of Oregon. Barnaby and Olga work with cool climate growing sites and are focused on quality farming as well as minimal intervention in both the vineyard and winery.

In the cellar, they embrace a minimalist intervention philosophy and ferment strictly with indigenous yeast native to each vineyard.