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STAFF PICK: Our 2016 Mount Richmond Pinot Noir
Updated onWe’re featuring Tasting Room Lead Neil Frew’s favorite Elk Cove wine, our 2016 Mount Richmond Pinot Noir, all month in our tasting room. We’re also giving you $5 off per bottle through May 30, 2019. Cheers! “Others have called Mt. Richmond the quintessential Yamhill-Carlton vineyard, and I’d have to agree. The marine sedimentary soils in…
16 Great Oregon Pinots for Springtime Pouring – Food & Wine
Updated on“Adam Campbell of Elk Cove is known for his complex, terroir-driven, single-vineyard Pinots, but his basic estate bottling is no less appealing. Floral on the nose, it offers substantial flavor without weightiness, ending with a hint of peppery spice. If you like this one, you may well find yourself investing in his single-vineyard bottlings, too.”
2017 Pinot Blanc: #5 in Wine Enthusiast’s Top 100 Wines
Updated onOur 2017 Pinot Blanc is #5 in Wine Enthusiast Magazine’s Top 100 Wines of 2018! “Wine Enthusiast’s tasting panel reviewed more than 24,000 wines from around the globe, exploring a multitude of regions, styles and price points.” – Wine Enthusiast Magazine Out of all these wines, our Pinot Blanc came in #5. What great news for this…
Bubbles Fest 2022 – Jade Helm Recommends Elk Cove
Updated on“Elk Cove Vineyards 2017 Mount Richmond Brut ($70), bursting with floral notes and light melon” – Jade Helm
92 Points – Owen Bargreen
Updated on“2019 Elk Cove ‘Clay Court’ Pinot Noir- The 2019 Elk Cove ‘Clay Court’ Pinot Noir is from vines set on a hillside in the Parrett Mountain region of the Chehalem Mountains AVA. The wine is crafted from Dijon clonal selections 115, 777 as well as Pommard clone Pinot Noir. A soft entry greets you with tart red fruits and citrus embers alongside shades of peat moss on the palate. Enjoy this great new wine over the next decade.”
94 Points – Vinous
Updated onDeep magenta. Vibrant, spice- and mineral-accented mulberry and raspberry scents show fine clarity and pick up hints of incense, topsoil and cola with air. Juicy and penetrating on the palate, offering intense red and blue fruit, candied lavender and spicecake flavors that smoothly meld depth and vivacity. Fine-grained, even tannins lend gentle grip to an impressively long, smooth finish that echoes the blue fruit and floral notes with authority.

