Antica Terra Oregon Antikythera Pinot Noir 2017

Antikythera is made entirely from our own little, rocky vineyard in the northernmost part of the Eola-Amity Hills. The wine, like the site, is a bit of an anomaly — it tends to defy characterization. In every vintage, there is an astonishingly extreme, high-pitched aroma of cinnamon-stick coupled with a non-fruity intensity and Barolo-like tannin that speaks neither of the Willamette Valley nor in some ways, pinot noir. Intensely mineral, it bears, somehow, a seemingly synesthetic resemblance to the ground from which it was born.