We always love the Bergstrom Cumberland Reserve, often finding it as good as their $100+ bottlings. But this 2024 vintage may be the most delicious yet. And critics are rating it the best ever, too…as well as better than most of their $100+ Pinots.
Suckling rates this the best Bergstrom Cumberland ever, at 96 points, saying:
Delicious aromas and flavors of just-ripe cherries, strawberries, spices and pine forest. Structured and fresh, with nice concentration and weight on the mid-palate. Sumptuous, with fine tannins and mouthwatering acidity. Complete and mouthwatering with a long, satisfying finish. Medium-bodied. A blend of all this producer’s single-vineyard wines. Drink or hold.
Best ever for Vinous, too:
The 2024 Pinot Noir Cumberland Reserve opens with vibrant black cherry, autumnal spices, saddle leather and camphor as it evolves in the glass. On the palate, pure silk textures carry ripe wild berry fruits under an air of cola and violet pastille. It leaves a gentle tannic inflection and a resonance of licorice on the finish, with excellent length and balanced structure. The Cumberland Reserve is an unparalleled value in first-class Oregon Pinot Noir.
Bergstrom owns one of the best vineyards (perfectly south-facing, on the slope above Drouhin) in Oregon’s most prestigious appellation, the Dundee Hills. And it really shows in this exquisite, truly world-class Pinot Noir.