Do you cellar these at all?
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What do you mean, cellar? Like do I age them? The 21s from all these producers are drinking really well but I have a variety of vintages in the cellar.
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We don’t really drink very often so I don’t buy anything with the intention of opening it unless it’s a specific wine for a dinner.
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The Loire, outside of Sancerre, offers good value. Cheverny in particular. Tessier comes to mind, but there are several other good producers in the $20ish range.
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I’m a Drouhin fan, just checked my notes and enjoyed a bottle of the 14 recently. They are bigger Pinots which I enjoy. If that’s the style you like, then other Oregon Pinots from Dundee-Hills, Eola-Amity Hills, Freedom-Hills, and Yamhill-Carlton may be worth a look.
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Piling on a couple of previous recs.
-Sandler Pinot Noirs, all of them!
-Drouhin RoseRock Eola-Amity Hills Pinot Noir.
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Excellent call. Wonderful wines at great prices.
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My two go-to great price drinkers are Joseph Swan Cuvee de Trois and Rivers Marie Sonoma Coast. I suppose not necessarily widely available, but those are two utterly worth seeking out and insane values.
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I see it listed above, but another vote for Vincent Ribbon Ridge Pinot.
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Evesham Wood’s base cuvee and Patricia Green’s Estate Pinot are widely available in my market and fit the bill here well. I’ve been lucky lately to find some of Robert Sinsky’s 2018 Carneros Pinot for less than $20 as well. It’s a bigger style than I prefer, but that’s hard to beat for the price.
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For me it would be Van Duzer or La Crema
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Big thumbs up for Patricia Green ‘Estate’, consistently excellent. I only see it sporadically, but they make one called ‘Dollar Bills Only’, very reasonably priced, light in body, a great warm weather Pinot (half an hour in the fridge if it’s hot out!).
I no longer work for the importer, but represented this for decades:
Domaine Goubard Bourgogne Cote Chalonnaise ‘Montavril’ - classic, pure, subtle, fragrant, for consumers looking for balance and harmony, not power. The current 2022 release is an honest 12.5% alcohol.
I think that with the collapse of the parent company, the Oregon Grower’s Guild Pinot Noir has or is disappearing, a real shame as I found it better than Firesteed, which IMO is not as good as it used to be.
When you can find Silver Mountain Pinot Noir on sale, IMO it is an unbeatable value.
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Agree with this. Santa Barbara County, Santa Ynez, has become my goto for Pinot Noir, some really good stuff there at lots of price points. The Oregon wineries mentioned are good but for me I prefer them with a lot of character that need some aging, like Goodfellow. Sonoma Coast has some very good PN’s with a lot of character. I like Sojourn, a little pricier than a daily drinker, starting at $40+ but I’d put it in the weekend drinker category. Rivers-Marie has excellent PN but again at a higher price point.
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I came here to say this exact thing.
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Never felt that I enjoyed CA Pinot Noir and recently tried Sandler off of notes from this board and loved it
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I’m of the mindset that Life is short. Drink the good stuff whenever. With that said, I drink mostly California pinots that I buy direct - Rivers-Marie, Occidental, Aubert, Donum Estate, Williams Selyem and the Hilt. If I have it, I’ll pop open a Bourgogne.
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Berserkerday is in 2 weeks, just sayin.
Vincent
Goodfellow
Patricia green
Kelley fox
Six cloves (ok - technically CA not OR but her pinot tastes like OR)
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If you bought several cases from just WB Oregon winemakers, you would be pretty stocked up for the rest of the year… and pretty much be spoiled; you’ll be hard pressed to find other Pinots that come close in value for the rest of your purchases in 2025.
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This pretty much sums up my past few years, as Oregon pinot noir has taken over my humble little cellar. I owe a debt of gratitude to this wine board, the Berserkers who turned me onto the stuff, the craziness that is Berserker Day, and the winemakers creating magic in a bottle. 
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Apropos to this thread, I just got an email from Avalon Wine saying that they have Goodfellow Willamette Valley for $19.95 per bottle, when buying a mixed case. That’s a good deal.
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