J.K. Carriere Pinot Noir "Antoinette" Willamette Valley 2022

Jeb Dunnuck : 95 Points

8/6/2024) From the top barrels from Temperance Hill, the 2022 Pinot Noir Antoinette is a very attractive ruby hue and is lifted on the nose with lifted spice and bright notes of cranberry, roses, potpourri, and pretty alpine herbs. It is elegant and refined, with a linear feel, and it has a savory undertone, but it’s pretty all the way through, with incense notes of the finish as well as wonderful energy. Drink it over the next 15 years. Maturity 2024 - 2039.

Vinous - Eric Guido : 94 Points

(5/2024) The 2022 Pinot Noir Antoinette is spicy, revealing a white pepper tinge to its blue and purple florals as dusty black cherries come to the foreground. Cool-toned and lifted in feel, this washes across the palate with violet-laced wild berry fruits as a note of blood orange adds lovely contrast toward the close. Inner rose tones and incense hover over a bed of fine-grained tannins and a blackberry concentration as this finishes dramatically long and wonderfully refined. Wow. Drinking Window: 2025 - 2034.