Antikythera is made entirely from Antica Terra's own little, rocky vineyard in the northernmost part of the Eola-Amity Hills. The wine, like the site, is a bit of an anomaly — it tends to defy characterization. There is, in every vintage, an astonishingly extreme, high-pitched aroma of cinnamon-stick coupled with a non-fruit intensity and Barolo-like tannin that speak neither to the Willamette Valley nor in some ways, pinot noir. Intensely mineral, it bears, somehow, a seemingly synesthetic resemblance to the ground from which it was born.

Aroma: An "ebullient bouquet" of cinnamon stick, autumn leaves, black pepper, and ink.

Palate: Medium-to-full-bodied, featuring a savory interplay of dried herbs, wild blueberries, and iron-like mineral, with "nervous energy" and citrus-infused red/black fruit.

Texture: Silky initially, evolving into firm, "chiseled" tannins with significant, long-lasting structure.

Finish: Savory and long, marked by mineral persistence and a "twang of tangerine