Our Pinot Noir Classique is an assemblage of all our North Willamette Valley vineyard sites and is a fine example of expert blending by our winemaking team, embodying our true "Classique" style and spirit. Aged in 15% new French oak, grapes designated for this blend were hand-harvested and fermented separately by vineyard and block, allowing the Lange's to create this precise and tightly-focused signature wine that consistently over-delivers for the price. 

93 Points | Decanter
“Tart and piquant aromatics of fresh cranberry relish, salty sea air and spicy blood orange pulp leap out. This wine has ample fruit but offers a linearity and complexity that has it punching way above its price point. The palate offers a saline mineral streak that frames turned earth. hints of forest floor and exuberant spiced red fruits. This vintage, the Pinot Noirs, are some of the best I've ever made; picking on balance was critical, says Jesse Lange. It was a breezy growing season, so the wines were set up for greatness. It was a ripe vintage, so picking on balance was key. Freedom Hill comprises 80% of this wine.”—Clive Pursehouse

92 Points | Owen Bargreen
“The excellent 2023 Lange ‘Classique’ Pinot Noir is a great wine from this warmer vintage. This shows beautiful tension with a pretty core of bright red fruits alongside This shows a great sense of minerality with very pretty red raspberry, guava and Yakima cherry fruit flavors. Enjoy now and over the next six to eight years. Drink 2024-2031"

92 Points | Jeb Dunnuck
“Just bottled in June of 2024, the 2023 Pinot Noir Classique is a youthful red ruby color and is very appealing already, with notes of fresh flowers, wild fresh herbs, and ripe berries. It has a lot of lovely tension and is very nicely styled, taking on great crunchy fruit. I love the tension and drive behind it, and I imagine it will provide a lot of enjoyment. It will likely be released in the late fall of 2024.”—Audrey Frick

91 Points 'Critic's Choice' | NW Wine Report
“Lange's Classique always overdelivers, and this wine surely does that. It's mostly estate grown fruit from Lazy River Vineyard and the winery's sites in the Dundee Hills, though this vintage also includes some Freedom Hill fruit for the first time. Aged 11 months in French oak (25% new), the aromas offer lifted notes of tea leaf, herb, and flower. The palate is medium-bodied and flavorful, full of plum and red and blue fruit notes. There's pleasing intensity throughout. Decant. 13.6% alcohol. Screwcap. 7,700 cases produced.”—Sean Sullivan