Domaine Drouhin Pinot Noir Oregon Red Wine

The name settles two things and leaves the third unsaid: it gives the grape, Pinot Noir, and the state, Oregon, but says nothing about how the wine tastes. Our grape research fills in the general picture without standing in for a note on this bottle. Pinot Noir is a thin-skinned red that tends to come out paler and less tannic than Cabernet Sauvignon, with cherry, berry and plum the flavors category guides commonly name; ripeness and the site can tip it from delicate toward dark and full. The origin is narrower than the state alone: the wine's record places it in the Dundee Hills, a recognized growing area inside Oregon's Willamette Valley, where regional guides say the Coast Range and Chehalem Mountains soften some Pacific weather while the valley's cool, wet-winter pattern still holds.

We do not have a shopper rating for this bottle, so the weight falls on price and maker. In our September 2026 checks the price sat between $50.99 and $64.49. The maker is the house behind it: Domaine Drouhin Oregon says it was founded in 1987 by the Drouhin family of Burgundy's Maison Joseph Drouhin, who carried their winemaking to the Dundee Hills of the Willamette Valley.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.