The Wine

The Cristom Vineyards 2019 South Side Cuvée Pinot Noir consists of 100% fruit from our 240-acre estate in the Eola-Amity Hills. Each of the vineyards included—Jessie Vineyard, Louise Vineyard, Eileen Vineyard and Paul Gerrie Vineyard—are represented through fruit selected from their southernmost blocks. The resulting wine consists of approximately 50% whole-cluster fermentation, and spent 18 months on 40% new French oak. Showcasing the unmistakable Cristom house style, the South Side Cuvée Pinot Noir displays the supple richness we’ve come to affiliate with this vintage, while still exhibiting tremendous complexity before giving way to a sating, lengthy finish.

Learn more about this lot during Preview Week, when winemaker Tom Gerrie will present this wine during a virtual tasting session on July 27. Register here.

The Winery

Cristom Vineyards began over a quarter of a century ago as a collaboration between an engineer and a biochemist who each possessed a deep-rooted respect for the land, the natural winemaking process, and Pinot noir. 27 years later, second-generation owner/winegrower Tom Gerrie leads winemaker Steve Doerner, vineyard manager and co-winemaker Daniel Estrin and our tenured viticulture team in tending our estate vineyards, producing elegant, dynamic wines, recognizable by our hallmark style of whole-cluster fermentation by native yeasts and minimal intervention during the winemaking process.

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The producing winery currently has distribution in the below listed countries and states. A list of distributors is available upon request.

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CA: MB, ON, QC
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USA: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY