Martin Woods "Koosah Vineyard" Eola-Amity Hills Pinot Noir 2021 - 1.5-Liter

Jeb Dunnuck : 98 Points

(8/6/2024) The medium red 2021 Pinot Noir Koosah Vineyard is outstanding and really in a great place, with notes of pristine ripe cherries, raspberries, preserved roses, and all the layers of the previous wines. It’s seamless on the palate, with plush, velvety tannins, clean, even acidity, and a lovely, tapered finish, which floats away ever so slowly. This is another outstanding wine from this site, which was purchased by Resonance (Jadot) in 2022. Drink it over the next 20 years. Maturity 2024 - 2044.

Decanter : 95 Points

(5/4/2023) Koosah' is from the Coast Salish dialect meaning 'beautiful ceiling of the sky.' This site, grown at 280 metres, is the highest in the AVA and planted on its own roots in rocky basalt and shallow top soils. This wine offers up effusive aromatics of alpine scrub and pine bough, followed on by cut persimmon aromatics. There is ample, fleshy blue fruit and a savoury spiced backbone to this elegantly knit Pinot Noir. Bramble berries, juicy blood orange and plenty of signature Eola-Amity spice carry into the finish. Drinking Window: 2023 - 2035.