The 2014 Pinot Noir “Willamette Valley” from Omero Cellars is excellent, coming in at a very civilized thirteen percent octane and reveling in its purity of fruit and soil expression. Tis bottling includes some purchased grapes, to go along with fruit from the estate vineyard on Ribbon Ridge. The bouquet wafts from the glass in a classy blend of black cherries, pomegranate, raw cocoa, a lovely base of soil tones, hints of the cola to come, a touch of cedar and a fine topnote of fresh thyme. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and sappy at the core, with marvelous transparency, fine-grained tannins, good acids and great backend focus and grip on the pure and nascently complex finish. This wine is so beautifully balanced that it is all too easy to drink it out of the blocks, but there are some great constituent components here and I really want to see what it is going to do with a bit of bottle age!