2016 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir Dijon 115 Freedom Hill Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  3/24/2024 - Bluecollar wrote: 91 Points

  Much better than previous notes, particularly on the finish. Focused on just a few notes, but delivers well on them. Blackberry and plum nose. Silky tannins and soft mouthfeel. Flavors of Black fruit and juicy red raspberry. Finishes with a slightly drying note of cassis and spice, lingering on and on.

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  11/4/2023 - Bluecollar wrote: 90 Points

  Beautiful strawberry nose with gentle flavors of wet stone and dried blueberries. The finish slowly builds with cedar and spice, drying at the end. Feminine and relaxed overall.

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  12/20/2022 - bear Likes this wine: 92 Points

  15 months later and the wine has hit its stride. Dusty tart cherry with mushroom and stony undertones. Nice acidity. I wish I had more.

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  9/20/2021 - bear Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Wine is still young to be drinking really well. I’ll give the other bottle a couple more years in cellar.

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  8/7/2021 - forceberry wrote: 91 Points

  From a vineyard planted to Dijon 115 clone in 2004. Combined of 100% whole cluster (5 barrels), 50% whole cluster (9 barrels) and 20% whole cluster (4 barrels) fermentations. Aged in 18 barrels of which 0 were new, 1 was once used and 17 were older. Total production 440 cases. 14% alcohol.
  
  Surprisingly concentrated and almost fully opaque blackish-red appearance. Dense, dark-toned and quite powerful nose with ripe, sweet-toned aromas of boysenberries and dark plums, some inky tones, a little bit of juicy blueberry, light earthy notes and a floral hint of violets. The wine is dry, dense and medium-bodied with a quite concentrated overall feel. Flavors of red plums and ripe cranberries, some blueberry tones, light meaty notes of umami, a little bit of ferrous blood, a hint of stony minerality and a touch of dark, plummy fruit. The structure relies more on the high acidity than on the textural, gently grippy medium tannins. The finish is ripe, dark-tone and quite concentrated with lengthy flavors of dark plummy fruit, some stony mineral tones, a little bit of vibrant cherry-driven red fruit, light blueberry notes, a hint of meaty umami and a perfumed touch of violets. The high alcohol introduces some warmth to the end of the aftertaste.
  
  A rather bold and powerful Oregon Pinot Noir with lots of ripe, dark-toned fruit. However, the wine shows wonderfully floral overtones both in the nose and the taste and the acidity feels surprisingly high for such a bold, weighty Pinot Noir, making it retain good sense of freshness. An impressive and wonderfully complex effort, albeit a bit too ripe and dark-toned to fit into my ideal of Pinot Noir. However, seeing how sturdy, structured and youthful the wine still is, I can see it brimming with aging potential, so hopefully it picks up a bit more freshness as it ages. Compared to the Freedom Hill Pommard Clone 2016 that was tasted alongside, this was stylistically more burly and darker-toned aromatically, but at the same time slightly more expressive and open for business. Good stuff, all the same. Priced somewhat according to its quality at 46,50€.

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