Granville Dundee Hills Pinot Noir Dux Vineyard 2024 NO20230809 and his wines from Savennières

and his wines from Savennières and Anjou are among the best in the world

Chacra’s “Cincuenta y Cinco” comes from 1955-planted Pinot Noir vines in Patagonia’s Río Negro Valley

Tyler's appellation-wide Pinot Noir draws from top sites across Santa Barbara County

aged mostly in large foudre

Granville Dundee Hills Pinot Noir Dux Vineyard 2024 NO20230809 and his wines from SavennièresSix acres on a knoll nobody's heard of, tucked behind a peak that blocks the cold Pacific wind the rest of Oregon takes on the chin. That's Dux a small, low lying Dundee Hills site at around 450 feet, planted in 2011 in classic red Jory soil, sheltered from the Van Duzer Corridor gusts by the hill just to its south. Less wind stress means gentler, more even ripening, and the Pinot that comes off it is perfumed and poised rather than muscular. Jackson