Weekend Wine Notes, Pinot Noir Month Part 3: Willamette Valley

I thought these eight examples of Willamette Valley pinot noir -- seven from 2015, one from '14 -- were splendid. Each is worthy of going to some effort to find. As usual in the Weekend Wine Notes, I eschew data concerning technical, historical and geographical matters for the sake of brief, incisive notices ripped, as it were, from the pages of my note…