2016 Patricia Green Balcome 2A, Mortimer Cooke Memoria - take 2
This is my second bottle from a six pack. The first bottle was almost exactly five years ago (Dec. 10th 2020) in which I said “This needs at least five more years.”
Linked here, followed by comments by Jim Anderson.
My wife brought home one of those Maple Leaf Farms cooked half ducks for dinner which turned out to be pretty damn tasty along with homemade butternut squash soup… Duck will always be linked in my head to PGC after a rather confused and amusing exchange I had with Jim in which he was talking about Pekin Duck 
and I was talking about Peking Duck. 
Anyway, the wine origin is explained in the link. This particular one called to me this year as I lost my closest family member just a few months ago and the idea of a commemorative bottle felt right. 
I decanted this to get the wine off a small amount of chunky sediment and then dove right in and drank it over several hours. First, it is super tasty. Almost as if an Oregon Pinot wanted to be a Barolo, but without the tar, leather, and VA. Rather, it had deeeeeeep dark cherries, blackberries, moist humus soil, and a bunch of other tasty stuff, along with rosemary, other herbs, and a bunch of other tasty stuff along with burly, drying tannins, and perky acidity. Secondly, this needs at least five more years. 
