2017 Goodfellow Family Cellars Pinot Noir Heritage No. 9 Durant Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 94.6 points

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  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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