Lovely event 2+ years in the making. We had this confirmed for feb/mar-ish 2020, and we all know what happened then…
Marcus/Megan came up to Seattle, and PeterH graciously hosted us at his home. Beautiful weather to sit out on the deck with good company!
I didn’t take super detailed notes so i’ll leave that to others. All the wines were blinded except the riesling flight (some single, some ringers thrown in double blind).
Brief Notes / Favorites / Take Aways:
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Riesling Flight - 2008 Matello Riesling Carey Creek Vineyard - Surprising how well this wine has held up with its vibrancy and freshness, juicy acid, but gaining the complexity with age.
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Chardonnay Flight - My take away here is if you want to know what the wines are like, ask Marcus, politely nod, and then go ask Megan what the wines are really like. Megan blind called most of the wines. impressive… Richard Cuvee was fav for me (as it usually is it seems)
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2018 Whistling Ridge Flight - Beloved Acre - This reminded me of the Heritage bottlings from WR, and well, turns out this IS the block that usually gets bottled as Heritage. In 2018 tho, the Heritage was a blend of Long, House, and Beloved, and Beloved got its own block bottling. Although all of them were
unique/different/pretty solid wines.
To make this anymore complex, Marcus just needs to sell a row of grapes to a niece who marries someone from PGC, who then gifts inheritance to Ken/Erica’s grand nephew. Domaine Patricia Goodfellow Scott… -
2017 Horizontal Flight - All the wines showed well, the ringer was identifiable as old world, altho I did not see a sancerre rouge at all. I thought it was a lesser known Burg appellation. My favorite here was the Durant vineyard. Balanced and ready/approachable. Longest ‘potential’ turned out to be Heritage, no surprise there.
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Somewhat Older Trio - The 2010 Whistling Ridge was the most pleasurable drinking wise. The Jadot i thought had a sulphuric rotten egg note so perhaps a slightly off btl.
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Olderrrrr Trio - All 3 were lovely. the two Matello has a very similar note to me. I guessed 05/06ish Whistling Ridge. There was a slight sulphur note on the PGC initially that blew off. Definitely shows potential of aging, and hard to pick a favorite out of these 3.
Thank you Megan and Marcus for the informative, educational tasting! Thanks Peter/Carol for hosting!