Last bottle of this...terrific, gorgeous wine. Soft, complex, and intriguing. Plenty of both fruit and secondary/tertiary character. Raspberry/cherry, mushroom, earth, leather, clove and spice. Drink now (or within the next year or so)....
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It really was bittersweet opening my last bottle of this. I truly wish I had more. While it is nothing short of outstanding...if I had more I'd wait another year or three before opening the next bottle. I think this has to go down as my most favored Pinot Noir from Oregon in the past few years. One thing is for sure. Those who have this in their cellar are lucky!
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WOW, what an amazing bottle. Funk that could not be described on the nose but as "oregon funk" dominated this wine off the start. Mouth feel was silky, and elegant, with bright red fruit, expecially Maine strawberries, made me want more of this wine. It was ashame to see the decanter empty after this wine but we continued to smell our glasses for 20min after that. This is a wine that i would truly love to get my hands on and celllar. I look forward to trying this agian in the future.
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My goodness time has done this baby proud. Beautiful funk, earth, truffles, and wild strawberries on the nose. This wine is something like an addiction for me...it is simply impossible to explain the pull this has on me. You can't understand it if you haven't been here...sitting beside me with your nose in the glass. Jim Anderson is a generous and kind man...and I would love to say that he's influenced me on this wine...but I don't think he has, as my friend sitting beside me is also just as mind boggled over this wine. In the mouth the purity of fruit lends itself to something like freshly squeezed cherry juice and raspberry sorbet and the finish just lingers on and on...I'm addicted and I must have more.
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This wine is filling the room with aromas as I type...and I JUST opened the bottle. A nice deep garnet color at the center the edges are starting to show signs of age with a little (very little) rust color as it fades out to a clear rim. There is a very dark earth/planting soil nose that overlays scents of black truffle, bing cherry, and scents of my grandfathers workshop with an oils stained wooden floor and more sawdust and sauder on the ground than you could imagine. At the very tail end of it all as I lift my nose away from the glass I get a faint whiff of vanilla that reminds me of a vanilla perfume called something like "Vanilla fields" that a girl I used to date early on in my military years used to wear....this is so damned exciting....just the scents alone.
In the mouth the wine is full and lush, almost thick like chocolate milk but it has a lithe supple finish that shows almost no weight. Flavors of sour cherry unfold giving into light hints of mint, blackberries, blueberries, twisslers, and strawberries.
Picking up the glass again I get lovely scents of bacon fat rising out of the glass. I must admit that the scents of this wine are years ahead of the flavors...while this is truely an excellent wine now...it deserves another two years in bottle...the flavors just haven't progressed at pace as the scents. (all this in just the first ten minutes!) This....this is what I love about these wines...while they take time, they are simply spectacular as they progress. This wine is smoothing out in the mouth now, and rounding the flavors together into something special. The flavors are transitioning seamlessly and it's becomming difficult to pick up where they end and start. This is a wine....phew...man. Now scents of date cookies are starting to come through...and it's just silk in the mouth.
Just an incredible wine. Sweet and smoky with incredible length. Deep and dark in color with blackberries, rasberry and tar. An excellent flavor profile and a great wine. Top notch Pinot from Patricia Green.
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Great complexity, with interesting Christmas spice combo (cloves, cardoman, cinnamon, etc.) and bright, vibrant fruit (cherry, raspberry, strawberry) but quite sharp and acidic.....This will be interesting to try over a few years.
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6/1/2019 - tak4 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Jim Anderson / PGC dinner - Etzel Block Vertical and Blind Tasting (New England): Blood, tomato, stewed pepper on nose. Moderate concentration. On palate - wow. Rich, mellow. And this is an off year! Damn.
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6/18/2011 - Employee500 wrote: 94 Points
Last bottle of this...terrific, gorgeous wine. Soft, complex, and intriguing. Plenty of both fruit and secondary/tertiary character. Raspberry/cherry, mushroom, earth, leather, clove and spice. Drink now (or within the next year or so)....
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11/21/2010 - jrf wrote: 93 Points
I'm with you guys. Time really helps PGs wines and this one is what Oregon lovers dream about.
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8/18/2010 - Kirk Grant wrote: 94 Points
It really was bittersweet opening my last bottle of this. I truly wish I had more. While it is nothing short of outstanding...if I had more I'd wait another year or three before opening the next bottle. I think this has to go down as my most favored Pinot Noir from Oregon in the past few years. One thing is for sure. Those who have this in their cellar are lucky!
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3/3/2009 - VinoEmo wrote: 94 Points
WOW, what an amazing bottle. Funk that could not be described on the nose but as "oregon funk" dominated this wine off the start. Mouth feel was silky, and elegant, with bright red fruit, expecially Maine strawberries, made me want more of this wine. It was ashame to see the decanter empty after this wine but we continued to smell our glasses for 20min after that. This is a wine that i would truly love to get my hands on and celllar. I look forward to trying this agian in the future.
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3/3/2009 - Kirk Grant wrote: 94 Points
My goodness time has done this baby proud. Beautiful funk, earth, truffles, and wild strawberries on the nose. This wine is something like an addiction for me...it is simply impossible to explain the pull this has on me. You can't understand it if you haven't been here...sitting beside me with your nose in the glass. Jim Anderson is a generous and kind man...and I would love to say that he's influenced me on this wine...but I don't think he has, as my friend sitting beside me is also just as mind boggled over this wine. In the mouth the purity of fruit lends itself to something like freshly squeezed cherry juice and raspberry sorbet and the finish just lingers on and on...I'm addicted and I must have more.
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4/19/2008 - Kirk Grant wrote: 94 Points
Retail Price $45
AVA: Yamhill-Carlton
Alcohol: 13.5%
This wine is filling the room with aromas as I type...and I JUST opened the bottle. A nice deep garnet color at the center the edges are starting to show signs of age with a little (very little) rust color as it fades out to a clear rim. There is a very dark earth/planting soil nose that overlays scents of black truffle, bing cherry, and scents of my grandfathers workshop with an oils stained wooden floor and more sawdust and sauder on the ground than you could imagine. At the very tail end of it all as I lift my nose away from the glass I get a faint whiff of vanilla that reminds me of a vanilla perfume called something like "Vanilla fields" that a girl I used to date early on in my military years used to wear....this is so damned exciting....just the scents alone.
In the mouth the wine is full and lush, almost thick like chocolate milk but it has a lithe supple finish that shows almost no weight. Flavors of sour cherry unfold giving into light hints of mint, blackberries, blueberries, twisslers, and strawberries.
Picking up the glass again I get lovely scents of bacon fat rising out of the glass. I must admit that the scents of this wine are years ahead of the flavors...while this is truely an excellent wine now...it deserves another two years in bottle...the flavors just haven't progressed at pace as the scents.
(all this in just the first ten minutes!)
This....this is what I love about these wines...while they take time, they are simply spectacular as they progress. This wine is smoothing out in the mouth now, and rounding the flavors together into something special. The flavors are transitioning seamlessly and it's becomming difficult to pick up where they end and start. This is a wine....phew...man. Now scents of date cookies are starting to come through...and it's just silk in the mouth.
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7/6/2007 - air guitar & pinot noir wrote: 91 Points
Just an incredible wine. Sweet and smoky with incredible length. Deep and dark in color with blackberries, rasberry and tar. An excellent flavor profile and a great wine. Top notch Pinot from Patricia Green.
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11/27/2006 - Employee500 wrote: 91 Points
Great complexity, with interesting Christmas spice combo (cloves, cardoman, cinnamon, etc.) and bright, vibrant fruit (cherry, raspberry, strawberry) but quite sharp and acidic.....This will be interesting to try over a few years.
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