Martin Woods Jessie James Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024

98 points Jeb Dunnuck: "The 2024 Pinot Noir Jessie James Vineyard is a bright jeweled ruby hue and shows more focused, layered spice, with notes of anise, pristine cherries, currants, and tiny-berried Dijon fruit adding concentration and precision. Now operated as a monopole, with an acre of Pommard fruit reclaimed from Beaux Frères, this is the most complete wine in the range. It combines finesse, elegance, and structure without harshness, soaring effortlessly across the palate with remarkable length. A pleasure today, it will be even better with time in the cellar. Drink 2027-2047." Us: Jessie James '24 is our Martin Woods wine of the vintage, and a candidate for our wine of the whole Willamette Valley 2024 vintage. On day 1 it was a photo finish between the 3 Pinots; the competition between this, Hyland and Temperance remained fierce. Jessie James '24 is everything we want Pinot Noir to be—it gives us deep, velvety concentration and mind-boggling inner succulence enveloped by a suave coolness. Jessie James always has an Eola-Amity Hills wildness but in 2024, we're awestruck by a newfound elegance. It's nothing short of spellbinding, an absolute must-have.