This has reached that point in it's life that I'm just going to have a hard time keeping my hands off the bottle. It's transitioning into the secondary stage of the wine's life that is all elegance, finesse, and subtlety. It should be noted that these next four bottles were all bought at auction and provenance is unknown, but smelling and tasting the wine it sure seems like the wine has had good storage. A ruby red core that is starting to brick lightly heading out to the meniscus. The nose of this is just plain sexy...in a way it's like trying to remember those moments in life that you want to hang onto forever. There's still vibrant fruit, spice, and other bold scents yet there is also this wispy hint of earth, mushrooms, and something that reminds me of old leather chairs in a nice library. On the palate red fruit leads to a tang of kiwi that transitions into a mid-palate burst as the acidity seems to cut a swath down the palate like a light breaking the darkness. The finish is not long...but it does not need to be as I keep find myself raising the glass as soon as it starts to ease up. If you have a bottle of this in your cellar, it is absolutely worth checking in on. I cannot imagine anyone being disappointed with this wine...it's just that lovely.
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This is in a lovely spot now...and I'd have a hard time keeping my hands off the rest of the bottles. It's elegant, poised, and the nose is full of earth-driven notes of mushroom, forest floor, and hints of old railroad ties. The palate is elegant and lovely in a way that leads me to think this wine is somewhere between the transition of secondary and tertiary notes of the nose and palates. This is lovely...and I will have a very difficult time not drinking the rest of my bottles in the next few years. Lovely...and haunting. Words escape me...I can't wait for the next bottle.
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Excellent. Strong barnyard upon pouring that began to dissipate as the fruit emerged through a 30 minute decant. Very complex aromas and tastes of earth, cherry, strawberry. Nice long finish. This could have cellared a couple more years.
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Dinner in the Provinces - Act 2 (Chez Walker - Princeton, NJ): This was after the white flight and served with my fabulous mushroom risotto with white truffle oil, turned out to be a great pairing. From a magnum, this guy has been sitting in my cellar since release, purchased direct from the vineyard, excellent provenance. Decanted for about 90 minutes prior to serving.
Medium ruby color, no bricking. Ironically I thought it might be getting late for this wine. Nose was barnyard (especially out of the bottle), red fruits, rose and lavendar, savory. Nose was much more complex after the decant. Served in Reidel tulip Pinot glasses. Some of crowd would have sat and smelled it for an hour...
Palate was bright red fruit, raspberry, plums, earth, black tea.
One of our tasters summed it up: "big, plummy pinot center subtly shaded with chocolate and coffee-like fringes. Big, and tannic without being overwhelming."
This is an extraordinary wine - one of the best Oregon Pinots I have had the pleasure of tasting. Thinking it may have been entering mid age I opened my only magnum - my guess is this bottle would have had another 10-15 years in it...the upside was sharing a really special bottle with some close friends. WOTN for a few
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I don't honestly like assigning points to a wine. Fine Art is not meant to be graded...
However, with that being said I'm going to given the Extraordinary quality, balance, and precision in this bottle. Color: Ruby with faint bricking at the rim. Smell: Earth, manure, black truffles, peach roses, dried cranberries, strawberries, raspberries, clove, blueberry compote, and faint hints of soy sauce. Taste: On the palate this wine ebbs abd flows like the passings of tides. Flavors of vibrant red fruit rise and fall along the entry and into the mid-palate. Entering into the mouth the wine is light and cool with brisk acidity and vibrant fruit. In the mid-palate the melange of red fruits gives way to well-aged Pu erh black tea, blueberries, with hints of beef-jerky. Overall: Extraordinary! The complexity of this reaches near the heights of all that I love about Oregon Pinot Noir. The tannin and acidity is in wonderful balance, yet still has room to mellow out with time. With only one bottle of this left, I have to think that I'm going to try to hold off and open this when it's 20 years old...but I haven't got that kind of patience. 2025? I'll be lucky if I can hold off for just 5 more years...
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Even better after being opened for a day...the acidity is still dominant, but the fruit appears to be slightly fuller and rounder. The finish is slightly longer, and the nose feels like it's gaind depth. It's like looking down into an empty cave and thinking the bottom is only a hundred feet down...and then dropping a chem-lite in and watching as it blinks out of existance somewhere just beyond where sight can grasp depth...Why didn't I buy more? This is amazing now...but I'd really prefer to start drinking this in another 3-4 years. I'm just not likely to be that patient.
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Smell: Forest floor, Bing Cherries, clove, cinamon, dried flowers, and faint new oak
Taste: A melange of red fruits from ripe raspberry to tart cherry.
Overall: Such a young wine...and for my own taste I opened this too soon. This is such a joy to drink, but it feels like it's just not showing all it has just yet. I really love Patty and Jim's wines...so keep that in mind. I will hold off on this for another 2-3 years minimum.
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Opened last night; as soon as I took out the cork I loved it-a big whiff of bing cherry, check. not overtly oaked, check.
It was a tangy mouthful of pinot and one of my best bottles of PG I've ever had...I like this vintage for Oregon and thanks Patty/Jim! can't wait to try the leftovers tonight, watching the Blackhawks game.
This is always one of my favorite wines from Patty Green. Had the affect of a firecracker going off in your had that didn't do damage. It was really big when first opened, but faded quick. This wine could be in an akward teenager phase. I still think that this wine has good time and potential, but I'll wait another year or two to see if it becomes a butterfly.
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This is a bottle I traditionally love. I think this bottle might be in an akward phase. It's missing it's vuluptuous round character I know. This is the 7th bottle I've had. I think it needs a year to regain balance. Subdued on the nose, black cherry and cola on the nose tight acidity and light finish on the palate. A great wine that's currently a pimpled face teen.
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3/2/2021 - Matt T wrote: 93 Points
Rich and well-balanced with notes of iron, raspberry, and oak. Drinking very well at the moment.
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6/1/2019 - tak4 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Jim Anderson / PGC dinner - Etzel Block Vertical and Blind Tasting (New England): Rich color. Tomato, beef, flowers on nose. Beautiful maturity. Still some primary fruit, some sauvage left. Just amazing
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12/22/2018 - Kirk Grant wrote:
This has reached that point in it's life that I'm just going to have a hard time keeping my hands off the bottle. It's transitioning into the secondary stage of the wine's life that is all elegance, finesse, and subtlety. It should be noted that these next four bottles were all bought at auction and provenance is unknown, but smelling and tasting the wine it sure seems like the wine has had good storage.
A ruby red core that is starting to brick lightly heading out to the meniscus. The nose of this is just plain sexy...in a way it's like trying to remember those moments in life that you want to hang onto forever. There's still vibrant fruit, spice, and other bold scents yet there is also this wispy hint of earth, mushrooms, and something that reminds me of old leather chairs in a nice library. On the palate red fruit leads to a tang of kiwi that transitions into a mid-palate burst as the acidity seems to cut a swath down the palate like a light breaking the darkness. The finish is not long...but it does not need to be as I keep find myself raising the glass as soon as it starts to ease up. If you have a bottle of this in your cellar, it is absolutely worth checking in on. I cannot imagine anyone being disappointed with this wine...it's just that lovely.
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7/24/2018 - Kirk Grant wrote:
This is in a lovely spot now...and I'd have a hard time keeping my hands off the rest of the bottles. It's elegant, poised, and the nose is full of earth-driven notes of mushroom, forest floor, and hints of old railroad ties. The palate is elegant and lovely in a way that leads me to think this wine is somewhere between the transition of secondary and tertiary notes of the nose and palates. This is lovely...and I will have a very difficult time not drinking the rest of my bottles in the next few years. Lovely...and haunting. Words escape me...I can't wait for the next bottle.
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11/23/2017 - JMcWong wrote: 93 Points
Dark cherry at first, but then I get pomegranate. Sage and earthy tones. A little acidic and smooth tannins. A nice medium long finish.
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5/23/2015 - pdxwinefan Likes this wine: 94 Points
Excellent. Strong barnyard upon pouring that began to dissipate as the fruit emerged through a 30 minute decant. Very complex aromas and tastes of earth, cherry, strawberry. Nice long finish. This could have cellared a couple more years.
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6/6/2014 - walkerjfw wrote: 96 Points
Dinner in the Provinces - Act 2 (Chez Walker - Princeton, NJ): This was after the white flight and served with my fabulous mushroom risotto with white truffle oil, turned out to be a great pairing. From a magnum, this guy has been sitting in my cellar since release, purchased direct from the vineyard, excellent provenance. Decanted for about 90 minutes prior to serving.
Medium ruby color, no bricking. Ironically I thought it might be getting late for this wine. Nose was barnyard (especially out of the bottle), red fruits, rose and lavendar, savory. Nose was much more complex after the decant. Served in Reidel tulip Pinot glasses. Some of crowd would have sat and smelled it for an hour...
Palate was bright red fruit, raspberry, plums, earth, black tea.
One of our tasters summed it up: "big, plummy pinot center subtly shaded with chocolate and coffee-like fringes. Big, and tannic without being overwhelming."
This is an extraordinary wine - one of the best Oregon Pinots I have had the pleasure of tasting. Thinking it may have been entering mid age I opened my only magnum - my guess is this bottle would have had another 10-15 years in it...the upside was sharing a really special bottle with some close friends. WOTN for a few
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9/7/2013 - Kirk Grant wrote: 96 Points
I don't honestly like assigning points to a wine. Fine Art is not meant to be graded...
However, with that being said I'm going to given the Extraordinary quality, balance, and precision in this bottle.
Color: Ruby with faint bricking at the rim.
Smell: Earth, manure, black truffles, peach roses, dried cranberries, strawberries, raspberries, clove, blueberry compote, and faint hints of soy sauce.
Taste: On the palate this wine ebbs abd flows like the passings of tides. Flavors of vibrant red fruit rise and fall along the entry and into the mid-palate. Entering into the mouth the wine is light and cool with brisk acidity and vibrant fruit. In the mid-palate the melange of red fruits gives way to well-aged Pu erh black tea, blueberries, with hints of beef-jerky.
Overall: Extraordinary! The complexity of this reaches near the heights of all that I love about Oregon Pinot Noir. The tannin and acidity is in wonderful balance, yet still has room to mellow out with time. With only one bottle of this left, I have to think that I'm going to try to hold off and open this when it's 20 years old...but I haven't got that kind of patience. 2025? I'll be lucky if I can hold off for just 5 more years...
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9/22/2011 - johnwine Likes this wine: 93 Points
Superb Burgundian style Pinot fleshy,well defined and complex.
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7/6/2011 - johnwine Likes this wine: 92 Points
This is a big, voluptous wine with plenty of dark berries, cherries, plums and spice. It is wine you can chew on.
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12/28/2010 - Kirk Grant wrote: 94 Points
Even better after being opened for a day...the acidity is still dominant, but the fruit appears to be slightly fuller and rounder. The finish is slightly longer, and the nose feels like it's gaind depth. It's like looking down into an empty cave and thinking the bottom is only a hundred feet down...and then dropping a chem-lite in and watching as it blinks out of existance somewhere just beyond where sight can grasp depth...Why didn't I buy more? This is amazing now...but I'd really prefer to start drinking this in another 3-4 years. I'm just not likely to be that patient.
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12/27/2010 - Kirk Grant wrote: 93 Points
Color: Ruby/Garnet
Smell: Forest floor, Bing Cherries, clove, cinamon, dried flowers, and faint new oak
Taste: A melange of red fruits from ripe raspberry to tart cherry.
Overall: Such a young wine...and for my own taste I opened this too soon. This is such a joy to drink, but it feels like it's just not showing all it has just yet. I really love Patty and Jim's wines...so keep that in mind. I will hold off on this for another 2-3 years minimum.
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4/16/2010 - Ki Punwar wrote: 92 Points
Opened last night; as soon as I took out the cork I loved it-a big whiff of bing cherry, check. not overtly oaked, check.
It was a tangy mouthful of pinot and one of my best bottles of PG I've ever had...I like this vintage for Oregon and thanks Patty/Jim! can't wait to try the leftovers tonight, watching the Blackhawks game.
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1/29/2010 - JohnnyBark wrote: 91 Points
This is always one of my favorite wines from Patty Green. Had the affect of a firecracker going off in your had that didn't do damage. It was really big when first opened, but faded quick. This wine could be in an akward teenager phase. I still think that this wine has good time and potential, but I'll wait another year or two to see if it becomes a butterfly.
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10/15/2009 - JohnnyBark wrote: 90 Points
This is a bottle I traditionally love. I think this bottle might be in an akward phase. It's missing it's vuluptuous round character I know. This is the 7th bottle I've had. I think it needs a year to regain balance. Subdued on the nose, black cherry and cola on the nose tight acidity and light finish on the palate. A great wine that's currently a pimpled face teen.
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9/24/2009 - johnwine wrote: 93 Points
This wine screaming jammy, chewy blackberries and plums. There is plenty of spice to make the wine into a berry pie.
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