TN: 2010 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir Estate Old Vine Ribbon Ridge

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  • 2010 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir Estate Old Vine Ribbon Ridge - USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley, Ribbon Ridge (10/24/2014)
    Light garnet, funky nose with lilacs. Dry, funky mineral on the PnP. Improves overnight, loses the funk and develops a tart mineral, red berry with medium fruit. Red currants, pie cherry and rhubarb giving an acid focused lighter fruit wine with stemmy tannins that should appeal the AFWE. Bold fruit lovers will not be as enamoured. The acid should keep this good for a while, no need to rush. (91 pts.)

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Thanks for the note. It’s that red fruited loveliness that prompted me to recommend PGC in the Carabella PN thread. Pretty sure PGC does a lot of destemming but Jim A would know for sure for this specific wine.

RT

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The Old Vine generally has some whole cluster element to it. Lying here in bed trying to force myself to get up and get to 2 of the last 3 press loads I cannot remember how much. That wine for better or worse is built around a fairly high level of minerality and graphite notes. I feel that whole cluster wines often have a graphite element to the aromatics so perhaps that is where the note on this wine comes from. Lots of whole cluster in 2014 but not much on the Estate wines other than a 50 percent ferment and three 100 percenters.

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I recently purchased bottles of both the 2011 and 2012 Old Vine bottlings and am looking forward to trying these at some point. Recently, I had the PG 2012 Freedom Hill Dijon Clone and found it to be excellent - rich wine that really opened over an hour or two, and had a long, relatively coimplex finish but still in balance. [welldone.gif]

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The Freedom Hill Dijon 115 is 50 to 60 percent whole cluster. 2012s are excellent. The 2011 Old Vine certainly could use some time.