Oregon: The Most Burgundian Place Outside of France

Oregon's Willamette Valley has been making a serious case for world-class Pinot Noir for over fifty years, and in the last decade that case has become undeniable. Today's episode covers the geography of the Willamette Valley, why the Van Duzer Corridor and the Eola-Amity Hills produce some of the most precise and mineral Pinot Noir outside Burgundy, the key sub-appellations to know, and the producers whose names on a label are a reliable signal of extraordinary quality.