2015 Goodfellow Family Cellars Pinot Noir Ribbon Ridge

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  12/17/2020 - Oregonnative Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Like many Goodfellow’s it took a little bit to open up. Once open very expressive nose of red fruit. I especially love Goodfellow wines in warm vintages for their restraint and this is doesn’t disappoint. Great mouth feel, weight and tension. One surprise was the chewy tannins. I don’t recall this as a characteristic of the vintage or Marcus’ wines. Very intersting. Still had a long juicy finish along side the tannins. Bright and dark cherry with orange make up the fruit. Great wine that needed some time to show its beauty. Can’t wait to see what day 2 is like.

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  11/9/2018 - coremill wrote: 90 Points

  Bright red cherry fruit with good concentration but no overt sweetness, nicely structured fine tannins providing some drying grip, plenty of acidity. Delicious in a restrained style. Excellent QPR.

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  9/13/2018 - OregonLoafer Likes this wine:

  Drank the other night. Delicious, but became muted with a couple hours of air. Was fantastic and vibrant right out of the bottle, fruit forward but with a distinct undercurrent of herbs, leaves, dirt, general Pinot awesomeness. Shut down a bit with a decent but was still delicious with with roast chicken.
  
  After even more time, this opened up again grandly. I had a sip of leftovers in a glass the next morning (for purely educational purposes, you see), and it was fragrant and alive again.
  
  So, drink as a pnp or with an 18-hour decant. No half measures.

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  6/16/2018 - Motz wrote: 91 Points

  Pure, expressive, and delicious. Superior quality for the price. It can evolve for quite a while.

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  5/11/2018 - Beerzebub Likes this wine:

  Just-ripe cherry-raspberryish fruit, pungent/wild, vinous rather than fruity yet fresh/vibrant. Lean, tart, refreshing, tasty, characterful, highly drinkable, good stuff.
  
  Day 2: Even better, with still more freshness/vibrancy.

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