{"product_id":"00-wines-willamette-valley-wine-auction-pinot-noir-richards-cuvee-eola-amity-hills-2017","title":"00 Wines Willamette Valley Wine Auction Pinot Noir Richard’s Cuvée Eola-Amity Hills 2017","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eChris and Kathryn Hermann founded 00 Wines in 2015 with a singular conviction: that Oregon Pinot Noir and Chardonnay belonged in the same conversation as the world's finest. The Richard's Cuvée is named for Chris's late father, Dr. Richard Hermann, a plant geneticist at Oregon State University whose blessing and encouragement made the project possible when he was 91 years old. The fruit comes from an unnamed vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills (a site so well-known the winery couldn't put it on the label) planted in volcanic soils at the cool, elevated end of the appellation. Decanter describes the Richard Hermann Cuvée site as delivering wines of great finesse, elegance, and freshness that balance out the powerful fruit sourced elsewhere in the 00 portfolio. The winemaking is as precise as the sourcing: whole single berries fermented in a 500-liter Tuscan terracotta amphora, then 16 months in 20% new French oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNow eight years in bottle, the 2017 is entering a particularly beautiful window. Reviewers noted perfumed, cool aromas of red berries, rose petal, lilac, and sandalwood with fine delineation on the palate, a wine that absolutely needed at least five years of bottle age and should reward ten or more. That time has passed, and then some. This is one of 66 signed, numbered bottles released through the Willamette Valley Wine Auction: a mature, deeply expressive Eola-Amity Pinot Noir from one of Oregon's most quietly serious producers, in a format that doesn't come around again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"First Bottle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53484698566953,"sku":"1015553","price":259.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/2706\/8457\/files\/00WinesWillametteValleyWineAuctionPinotNoirRichardsCuveeEola-AmityHills2017_1015553_FB_Rack.jpg?v=1789504746","url":"https:\/\/firstbottlewines.com\/products\/00-wines-willamette-valley-wine-auction-pinot-noir-richards-cuvee-eola-amity-hills-2017","provider":"First Bottle Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}