Closed - Black Friday Sale || Sun Break Pinot Noir, Eola-Amity Hills/Willamette Valley (it was an insane discount, what was I thinking?)

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I am offering a sneak preview and offer on our 2022 Pinot Noir vintage—not yet released to the general public. These wines will be on the website only now through (Close out EDIT) at -XX% and -XX% (EDIT) shipping. Use discount code “BFriday” (valid on the four 2022 Pinot Noirs only, min. order quantity 6 bottles). But DM or email me if you are local, or having issues, or if you are from a State VinoShipper doesn’t cover (CA, CT, MT, NJ). These will be delivered or will ship first week of December, or I can hold in storage as desired. The 2022s Pinots are tasting great now (soft, well-knit tannins) but can be cellared for at least 10 to 20 years.

Link to Online Site and Shop: Sun Break Wines

The 2022 vintage is one of great flavor intensity, low sugar/ABV and good phenolic ripening. I would characterize it as a cool vintage for our Pinot/Vineyard site, showing elegance and precision due to the short growing season. These wines have not yet been reviewed, but you can check out our solid previous reviews on our website and there are also a fair number on WB and CT.

In a nutshell, we experienced frost in the beginning of April 2022, where overnight temperatures dipped to 27-28F degrees, followed by a very cool and wet April, May and June. When combined with the frost, this set vine growth back by 4 weeks and the vineyard I source from flowered early/mid July. Afterwards, the heat in July and August produced healthy canopies, and luckily, September and October were warm and dry for perfect grape ripening and harvest conditions. October was especially unusual with many 80 degree days, and a record-breaking 4-6 degrees warmer than average for the month.

Why the sale? Because we love you guys! And as some of you may have seen, I sell mostly online and through the three-tier distribution system (no tasting room). Nationally, wine sales are down a bit this year and here locally, my Oregon distributor declared bankruptcy in 2023….

Our Pinots: I produce 3 distinct styles of Pinot Noir: The Colette is 100% destemmed and usually shows more pure fruit; the Ariane is 100% whole cluster is therefore lighter, lower alcohol, brighter red fruit with more savory stem tannins and flavors; the Marie-Paule is a blend of the two fermentation styles with compelling complexity, balance and layers of fruit, tannins and phenolics. The current Board favorite is the Ariane, but I have fans of all three styles: hotlink to WB TN

Thanks! David
Link to online store
DM me on WB or email dpatte62@gmail.com

Sun Break Signature Series Pinot Noir 2022
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I’m in CA (91741) and curious what shipping would be on a 6er. :cheers:

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Standard rate would be $30, so 50% = $15. As you can see VinoShipper doesn’t handle CA shipments very well (and it’s a 12 bottle min). So email me your order and info and we’ll get it done through another (offline) fulfillment service that I use. dpatte62@gmail.com Thanks!

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Nice , David

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Really generous offer, @David_Patte! Just ordered a mixed case of the four 2022 Pinots and can’t wait to try them. Out of curiosity, is the stem inclusion the only difference between the three main bottlings? No other differences, e.g., different blocks in the vineyard? This looks to be a fun tasting to put together and assess side by side, and knowing all the nuance between wines will certainly be instructive. Happy thanksgiving to you and yours!

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In for a mixed 6er.

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If I didn’t have a tasting at Sun Break scheduled in just 9 days, I’d be all over this. But I will force myself to be patient so that my wife and I can taste through the wines and decide which ones we actually want rather than ordering blind. Everybody else should jump on this sweet deal though. :+1:

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That’s exactly right, no other difference than fermentation style.I take half from each of the six blocks and ferment destemmed for the Colette, and the other half whole cluster for the Ariane. The Marie-Paule (regular and reserve) is a cuvée from barrels of each. It makes for a really fun side-by-side tasting.

I am fascinated by the concept of terroir in the classical Burgundian sense that includes tradition and practices such as the fermentation style decision (I.e., terroir is not just soil, geology, exposure, and microclimate). These vignerons have had centuries of experience to hone in on what works best for each site and also their own massal selection (MS is the real missing component and potential limiting factor for WV Pinot IMHO). That said, several Domaines have seen relativity recent shifts in the use of whole cluster vs destem (and before that I am sure that many switched to DeStem when better machines became available in the late 20th Century just like the period of chemical herbicides, fertilizers and other sprays).

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Thanks for all of the info here - love this! It will be a fun and educational horizontal.

Do you mind expanding on this a bit? Very interested to learn more.

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We have a good variety of clones being used in the Willamette Valley— there are several dozen available choices and we have about five decades of experience and experimentation. So no lack in quality given all the clones we have to work with. But some Burg Domaines (not all to be sure) have been selecting for their sites and watersheds (villages) for centuries so I feel they inherently have potentially more diversity (across the larger AOC) and the time/experience to have dialed in the best expression for their sites (and again, only for those Domaines that have been adhering to massal selection for a long time, DRC being perhaps the best example at the site level). That said, in the Willamette Valley we do have the advantage of dryer summers and less disease pressure. So we have greater freedom on clone selection, and my personal thoughts are that part of the Burg style has been influenced over time by having to select for more open clusters due to disease pressure. For example, we do not have downy mildew to worry about.

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Well, I caved. In for a mixed six. :wine_glass:

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Thanks Charles. How about I hold them and we can decide what the mix is at that point? (regardless of how it reads in the invoice— I can change that behind the scenes online before it ships)

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That would be fantastic. Thank you. I look forward to seeing you next weekend.

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Great deal. Thanks. Bought the ciders last BD, but this will be my first go around with the wines.

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Thanks Dave. Looking forward to you trying my wines!

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Grabbed a mixed case, love your previous vintages. Did a comparison of 2019 vs 2021 vintages across your line over 3 days. Such interesting results…2021 best, 2019 best, 2021 best, 2019 best, etc. across tastings on different times of the 3 days. What year is best? It depends

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Thanks Kevin! That’s so cool

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Hey, you tried your best for those three hours :sweat_smile:

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It was a tough three hours. :sweat_smile::wine_glass::crossed_swords:

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Put an order in last night. Such a great offer for high quality juice!

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