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Big Table Farm is the name of the homestead property where the winery is located, and where wife and husband Clare and Brian Carver live. Theirs is a bucolic setting in the heart of Oregon’s Yamhill-Carlton AVA. It’s very much an agrarian lifestyle set among vineyards, orchards, and animals. All in all, it’s more than just a winery, it’s living with the earth. With the life of wine, Brian’s the winemaker and Clare’s the artist. It is her drawings that are the wine’s amazing labels.
The winery’s Willamette Valley Pinot Noir is essentially their entry Pinot, yet that is a huge undersell. This stuff’s fantastic. It’s a blend of fruit from several top vineyard sites across the valley, often including places like Sunnyside, Pelos Sandberg, and others depending on the vintage. The idea is to capture a broad snapshot of Willamette terroir rather than a single-site expression. Capture the place’s terroir it does with elegant, lively fruit rather than a more extracted offering. Fermentation is typically with native yeasts, and they often use a portion of whole cluster, which adds structure and aromatic lift. Oak is used most judiciously so as not to get in the way of the fresh, vibrant fruit.
In the glass, the Willamette Valley Pinot Noir is definitely a modern drink as well it should be. It is Oregon fruit through and through. The juice shows bright flavors of just picked cherries, raspberries and cranberries. There’s layered floral notes of rose petals, violets alongside subtle spices, and a kiss of earthiness. It’s got this neat little savory thang that pops up and accentuates the silk oozing, grippy texture. We so dig this Pinot Noir.
Big Table Farm is the name of the homestead property where the winery is located, and where wife and husband Clare and Brian Carver live. Theirs is a bucolic setting in the heart of Oregon’s Yamhill-Carlton AVA. It’s very much an agrarian lifestyle set among vineyards, orchards, and animals. All in all, it’s more than just a winery, it’s living with the earth. With the life of wine, Brian’s the winemaker and Clare’s the artist. It is her drawings that are the wine’s amazing labels.
The winery’s Willamette Valley Pinot Noir is essentially their entry Pinot, yet that is a huge undersell. This stuff’s fantastic. It’s a blend of fruit from several top vineyard sites across the valley, often including places like Sunnyside, Pelos Sandberg, and others depending on the vintage. The idea is to capture a broad snapshot of Willamette terroir rather than a single-site expression. Capture the place’s terroir it does with elegant, lively fruit rather than a more extracted offering. Fermentation is typically with native yeasts, and they often use a portion of whole cluster, which adds structure and aromatic lift. Oak is used most judiciously so as not to get in the way of the fresh, vibrant fruit.
In the glass, the Willamette Valley Pinot Noir is definitely a modern drink as well it should be. It is Oregon fruit through and through. The juice shows bright flavors of just picked cherries, raspberries and cranberries. There’s layered floral notes of rose petals, violets alongside subtle spices, and a kiss of earthiness. It’s got this neat little savory thang that pops up and accentuates the silk oozing, grippy texture. We so dig this Pinot Noir.