Red fruits and spice and everything nice!!! This is an amazing Oregon wine. It is shiny and bright, with gorgeous red fruit, flower petal, strawberry and tart cherry, with pretty stemmy perception, and dusty minerals. It is exciting to drink. Love it!
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Slow ox for thirty minutes. Beautiful transparent shimmering red color. Nice floral nose with hints of red cherry. The palate is medium bodied, well balanced and elegant but serious. Red cherry, strawberry, herbs and spice. Still very youthful and probably holding a little back.
Slow ox one hour. This is fantastic. Beautiful cool, ethereal nose. Light to medium, transparent but with significant verve and concentration and lovely acidity. This will only get better with time.
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I didn’t plan to open another bottle of this so soon, but things happen. Tasted over the course of 48 hours the effect of Dundee Hills (as compared to Ribbon Ridge) is quite clear. While still transparent, the Durant is deeper and earthier. The structure is evident, and in balance with the dark red fruit. While an imprecise comparison, this is the Pommard to the Whistling Ridge Volnay. Neither is Burgundy (nor should they be), but the two sites speak with a different emphasis, Durant being the more muscular, and Whistling Ridge more lithe, yet still strong. Now I just have to avoid opening my last bottle of this vintage in the next six months. The wine deserves a lot of time to evolve and show all the facets that are currently underneath the youthful fruit.
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Popped and poured. Black cherry, herbs and a little smoke. The wine is transparent, elegant and graceful, light on its feet but showing a lot of underlying concentration. This seems to have tremendous potential although it was so light in feel I wondered how it would age - perhaps it puts on some more weight over the next few years?
Typically for Goodfellow, this is on the elegant side, but that doesn’t mean it’s light on flavor. There is plenty of fruit and savory here, and based on the structural balance I could see aging it for 5-7 years before I try another bottle, but 2-3 would potentially be sufficient. It’s a lovely Pinot. I would love to put it up against other Durant bottlings to assess the terroir expression.
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Just got a case of wine last night with a lot of 2017 Goodfellow, and decided to crack this tonight. Light color (good). Nose is classic lithe PN. Wild strawberry and pomegranate fruit with a little cranberry. Nice gentle spices and a bit of earth and rose petal, and some stemmy green. This reminds me just a touch of Enderle & Moll's style, but not as far down the rabbit hole as them. Very puckery on the palate right now - tart red fruits, super fine tannins, serious acid and lots of crunch. When trilled it shows tons of reserves but does not give up its secrets - this one is like a serene fortress - built to age. The acid almost feels like it is going to that citrus squirt I get in some young mostly U.S. Pinots, but it doesn't - it stays just on the red fruit side of the spectrum. The finish is quite acidic and austere, and here we see the savory minerality and it goes well with the tart red fruit - still tough but very pretty. This is poised and translucent Pinot.
Day 2: The nose on this is just wonderful now - great Pinot perfume with fruit and spices and florals. The palate is still pretty wound, but might be loosening a bit. The finish starts very sour, with a real burst of tart cranberry and pomegranate, but then it expands well and the floral and perfume really shine. Very long. Nose - 5.5/6, Palate - 4.5+/6, Finish - 5-5.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 16.5-17/20 (with 17-17.5/20 potential.)
6/12/2022 - Charlie Carnes Likes this wine: 95 Points
Red fruits and spice and everything nice!!! This is an amazing Oregon wine. It is shiny and bright, with gorgeous red fruit, flower petal, strawberry and tart cherry, with pretty stemmy perception, and dusty minerals. It is exciting to drink. Love it!
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3/4/2022 - mclanew Likes this wine: 95 Points
Slow ox for thirty minutes. Beautiful transparent shimmering red color. Nice floral nose with hints of red cherry. The palate is medium bodied, well balanced and elegant but serious. Red cherry, strawberry, herbs and spice. Still very youthful and probably holding a little back.
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11/12/2021 - mclanew Likes this wine: 96 Points
Slow ox one hour. This is fantastic. Beautiful cool, ethereal nose. Light to medium, transparent but with significant verve and concentration and lovely acidity. This will only get better with time.
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6/15/2021 - Rieslingfan wrote:
I didn’t plan to open another bottle of this so soon, but things happen. Tasted over the course of 48 hours the effect of Dundee Hills (as compared to Ribbon Ridge) is quite clear. While still transparent, the Durant is deeper and earthier. The structure is evident, and in balance with the dark red fruit. While an imprecise comparison, this is the Pommard to the Whistling Ridge Volnay. Neither is Burgundy (nor should they be), but the two sites speak with a different emphasis, Durant being the more muscular, and Whistling Ridge more lithe, yet still strong. Now I just have to avoid opening my last bottle of this vintage in the next six months. The wine deserves a lot of time to evolve and show all the facets that are currently underneath the youthful fruit.
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6/13/2021 - mclanew Likes this wine: 94 Points
Popped and poured. Black cherry, herbs and a little smoke. The wine is transparent, elegant and graceful, light on its feet but showing a lot of underlying concentration. This seems to have tremendous potential although it was so light in feel I wondered how it would age - perhaps it puts on some more weight over the next few years?
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10/23/2020 - Rieslingfan wrote:
Typically for Goodfellow, this is on the elegant side, but that doesn’t mean it’s light on flavor. There is plenty of fruit and savory here, and based on the structural balance I could see aging it for 5-7 years before I try another bottle, but 2-3 would potentially be sufficient. It’s a lovely Pinot. I would love to put it up against other Durant bottlings to assess the terroir expression.
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5/2/2020 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 93 Points
Just got a case of wine last night with a lot of 2017 Goodfellow, and decided to crack this tonight. Light color (good). Nose is classic lithe PN. Wild strawberry and pomegranate fruit with a little cranberry. Nice gentle spices and a bit of earth and rose petal, and some stemmy green. This reminds me just a touch of Enderle & Moll's style, but not as far down the rabbit hole as them. Very puckery on the palate right now - tart red fruits, super fine tannins, serious acid and lots of crunch. When trilled it shows tons of reserves but does not give up its secrets - this one is like a serene fortress - built to age. The acid almost feels like it is going to that citrus squirt I get in some young mostly U.S. Pinots, but it doesn't - it stays just on the red fruit side of the spectrum. The finish is quite acidic and austere, and here we see the savory minerality and it goes well with the tart red fruit - still tough but very pretty. This is poised and translucent Pinot.
Day 2: The nose on this is just wonderful now - great Pinot perfume with fruit and spices and florals. The palate is still pretty wound, but might be loosening a bit. The finish starts very sour, with a real burst of tart cranberry and pomegranate, but then it expands well and the floral and perfume really shine. Very long. Nose - 5.5/6, Palate - 4.5+/6, Finish - 5-5.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 16.5-17/20 (with 17-17.5/20 potential.)
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