This wine offers aromas of elderflower, orange blossom and lemon, followed by aromatic cedar notes.
The flavor has bright acidity and a mineral feel, with flavors of white peach and pear harmonizing with floral and citrus flavors.
The wine's texture is bright and rich with juicy acidity from start to finish.
The finish is long, with lingering lemon and grapefruit aromas and a dry mineral feel.
The Tukwila Vineyard is located on the lower slopes of the Dundee Hills AVA at an elevation of 300-340 feet (91-107 m) on a mixture of basalt, jolly and alluvial woodburn soils.
Tukwila Vineyards was planted in the 1990s.
Temperatures have risen and, although there was some rain in September, it has been a very dry summer.
The Willamette Valley experienced a wet and cool spring, which delayed bud break by more than 10 days.
However, there was a very warm spell in May, with temperatures ranging from 27°C to 32°C, which resulted in late bud break but early flowering.
This resulted in the shortest time from bud break to flowering ever seen in most Oregon growing areas.
Temperatures in July were consistently high but not excessively hot.
A heat wave from August 13-16 resulted in the hottest and driest August on record, bringing the growing season forward.
Warm temperatures meant that harvesting took place early, from September 18th to October 2nd.
The 2023 Pinot Blanc was the earliest harvested grapes of the year, harvested on September 20th, 2023 at 20.6 Brix.
After pressing, the wine was racked into stainless steel tanks, inoculated with D47 yeast, and fermented for 40 days.
No malolactic fermentation was carried out, and the wine was racked and sterile filtered at bottling.
The name Torii Mor is a combination of Torii, the Japanese word for the gate at the entrance to a shrine, and Mor, the ancient Norse word for "earth."
Combining these two distinct words, Torii Moa alludes to the wonderful things the vine offers us through its sacred portal to the earth.
Perhaps no other variety expresses the subtleties of the land in which it is grown as elegantly as Pinot Noir, and Torii Moir's Pinot Noir is meticulously crafted with minimal human intervention and fermented with natural yeasts to allow for a pure expression of what the land has to offer.
Torii Moir believes that wine, and especially Pinot Noir, is a priceless, indelible work of art created through the mutual cooperation of man and nature.
We think you'll agree that wine is like art and storytelling, something you can enjoy with family and friends.
Since its first release in 1993, Torii Moir has continued to make wine with the vision of "pursuing elegant Pinot Noir in the 'Old World' style."
The owner, Dr. Donald Olson, is a neurosurgeon currently specializing in pain medicine.
Dr. Olson, a longtime fan of Burgundy wine, believed that Oregon's Dundee Hills was the mecca for the next generation of Pinot Noir, and in 1985 he acquired the winery facilities, including the historic vineyards planted in 1972 and the beautiful Japanese garden, from Jim McDaniel, one of the early founders of Oregon wine.
The winery's name, Torii More, was coined by the doctor and represents the terroir and connection to the earth expressed by Pinot Noir.
Jacques Tardy, who comes from an eighth generation Burgundy winegrowing family, has been in charge of winemaking since 2004, and John Tamaselli, who worked under Jacques, took over as the new winemaker in 2021.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is the most elegant wine in the Willamette Valley.