Patricia Green Reserve Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2007

Patricia Green Cellars Reserve Pinot Noir 07 is an AMAZING value.
From the winery:
The Reserve bottling is comprised of wine from the 25 year-old vines of Bradley Vineyard (55%), the 25 year-old LIVE certified Wadensvil clone Pinot Noir from Cattrall Vineyard outside of Amity (8%), both the young plantings and some of the older sections of Eason Vineyard (14%), barrels from a 1997 planting in the Estate Vineyard (4%), the Dijon clones (115 and 777) from Four Winds Vineyard (7%) and 3 barrels from the Pommard clone block planted in 1974 at Goldschmidt Vineyard (12%).
The wine is read more...an excellent example of what Oregon Pinot Noir can be. This shows the nice qualities of the vintage, you get a clear sense of the house style and the wine, while eminently drinkable young, should persist for awhile given the type of material that it is constructed from. This is brightly fruited with great gobs of cherries and raspberries in the fore-palate. There is lots of sweetness in the mid-palate and just enough structure toward the back to pull it together and give it length.    (hide)

October 2009

A Pinot Noir from Willamette Valley always sparks my interest, since most California Pinots tend toward too much sugar and alcohol to satisfy. At a recent dinner, my friend spotted a bottle of Patricia Greene '07 Reserve on the wine list and ordered it. It immediately offered up that trademark earth-and-cherries aroma that I crave. Better still, it continued to open up as we swirled, sipped and supped, yielding more subtle fruit and just a hint of smoke along the way, ending in a smooth finish. Our meals were quite different -- duck for him, sea bass for me. The wine paired nicely with both, and read more...we enjoyed it to the last well-balanced drop. A very reasonably priced example of a Willamette Valley Pinot that I will certainly look for again!    (hide)

• Tags:
• Earth
• Cherries
• Balance
• Hint of Smoke

October 2009