Evening Land Vineyards (ELV), the new kid in town, has quite a reputation already. It’s one
of ambition, quality, brilliance and beauty… the stuff legends are made of.
Not many wineries produce wine in multiple locations. While
a few Oregon wineries also make wine in California or Washington, and even fewer number make wine
in both Oregon and Burgundy, Evening Land actually makes wine in all three locations with fruit from esteemed vineyards in these areas—Oregon, California
and France. Stop in at their new Dundee tasting room and sip for yourself.
You might just not believe your tastebuds.
With vineyards and wine production in the Willamette
Valley, Sonoma Coast and in an idyllic 12th century chateau in the legendary Burgundy France, ELV offers
tasters a chance to experience the wide world of wine. Enjoy them all, side-by-side, and explore the qualities distinctive to
each specific growing region, as well as the varietal similarities.
Discover the minerality of the Evening Land Chardonnays, each
of them bright, rich, alive and impressive showing flavors of lemon, grapefruit
peel, pear and white blossoms.
The ELV Pinot Noirs are simply captivating. The Willamette Valley blue
label (ELV's elegant labels are color-coded according to price), a blend of
three different vineyard sites (Lemelson, Stoller and Eola Springs), is surprisingly priced in the “affordable” Oregon
Pinot Noir category. At just $25 a bottle retail, it’s a wine you definitely want to get your corkscrew into and add to your regular line-up.
The Seven Springs Vineyard Pinot Noir is simply stunning.
On the savory side of Pinot, the wine is still dripping with sweet, luscious black
cherries and tart red raspberries. This acid-driven wine is perfectly balanced…a symphony of fruit, earth, minerals and old-world style, all the notes coming together in perfect harmony. Sublime. Quixotic. Pour me another glass.
Though I’d tried ELV's wines before, this comprehensive and
more focused tasting made quite an impression on me. All of the wines (with the
exception of the Spanish Springs Vineyard Pinot Noir, which is wisely being
discontinued) are even better than remembered or expected. Evening Land is definitely a winery to put on
your “Must Visit” and "Must Taste" lists.
