- Certified LIVE Sustainable
- 100% Pinot Noir
- Eileen Vineyard (Eola-Amity Hills AVA)
- Named after co-founder of Cristom Vineyards: Eileen Gerrie
- 545-737 ft. elevation
- Planted in 1997
- South, southeast, and eastern aspect
- Columbia River basalts including Jory, Saum, Nekia, RItner, Witzel, and Yamhill soil series
- 100% native yeast fermentation
- 51% whole cluster
- 1-3-punchdowns daily in 1.5-5 ton open-top fermenters
- Gently pressed in a pneumatic bladder press and moved to barrel by gravity
- Aged 17 months in 32% new French oak
- Unfined and unfiltered
- 816 cases produced
- 13.5% abv
Info
Producer:
Vintage:
2022
Country:
United States
Region:
Oregon
Appellation:
Eola-Amity Hills
Variety:
Pinot Noir
Color:
Red
Farming Practice:
Practicing Biodynamic
Sizes Available
| Full Bottle | US-CRI-40-22 | 6/750ml |
Press & Reviews
Decanter
Score
97
Date
2024-08-14
"Eileen is at the top of the hill, staring out towards the Coast Range. This wine is a picture of elegance, and the turbulence from the Van Duzer Corridor moves through the clusters and vines. It's satiny, with spiced aromatics, wild herbs and bright tart cranberries. The site's higher acids lift the silky mouthfeel, it comes together beautifully. Blue fruits, wild spearmint and Chinese five spice frame an elegance of red berries and pine bough freshness. The finish shows a sweetness of berries and a note of green peppercorn."
Jeb Dunnuck
Score
97
Date
2024-08-08
"A deeper and layered profile emerges in the 2022 Pinot Noir Eileen Vineyard, which comes from windswept site where the grapes get thick skins from the wind. It has a more woodsy profile, with savory saline, brothy feel, tea leaf, toasted spice, and black cherries. Drink it over the coming 15-20 years."
Vinous
Score
95
Date
2024-08-08
"The 2022 Pinot Noir Eileen Vineyard seduces with a sweetly spiced yet refined bouquet that blends cloves and cinnamon sticks with dusty rose, mint and bright cherries. Silken to the core and lifted in feel, this sweeps across the palate with grace, soothing with its juicy acidity as ripe red berry fruits slowly saturate. It's gently tannic and potent, leaving a staining of primary concentration while finishing dramatically long and classically dry. The Eileen Vineyard refined for seventeen months in 32% new French oak."
REVIEWS FROM PAST VINTAGES
2023
Jeb Dunnuck
Score
96
Date
2025-08-26
"A deeper ruby/magenta color, the 2023 Pinot Noir Eileen Vineyard was aged in 48% new French oak. It offers layered depth in its notes of black raspberries, cherries, orange peel, baking spice, strawberry preserves, violets, mossy earth, and fresh leather. From the highest elevation site at 800 feet, and as Daniel Estrin describes it œborn from the wind,” it has floral lift, with concentrated richness and a relatively full-bodied frame. Mouthwatering and stunning now, it will drink well over the next 20 years."
2023
James Suckling
Score
95
Date
2026-02-19
"An intense and aromatic wine with crushed flowers, juniper and sweet oak spices on the nose. There is a rustic, wild nature to this full-bodied wine, with flavors of spices, red and black fruit and broad, mouth-filling tannins. Drink after 2028."
2023
Wine Advocate
Score
94
Date
2025-11-06
"The 2023 Pinot Noir Eileen Vineyard was fermented with 48% whole clusters and matured for 18 months in 26% new French oak. It bursts from the glass with scents of pomegranate, red cherry, blackberry, pipe tobacco, forest floor and violets. The medium-bodied palate boasts highly concentrated, fragrant flavors. It™s framed by velvety tannins and bright acidity and has a long, layered finish. 808 cases were made."
James Suckling
Score
96
Date
Wine Advocate
Score
96
Date
2021-12-16
"Medium ruby, the 2019 Pinot Noir Eileen Vineyard is pure, delicate and so pretty"