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I know I am tardy to the party but better late than never. My first Goodfellow. Considering I drink <1% US wine and my cellar is pretty full up, I hope I have a reasonable excuse for just now getting to this. My friend Phil from P-S Wines knows I am back in PDX so he sends me a text saying “I know you like your own stash but New Seasons is having an unusually good sale on wine” and I say “great, I’ve been wanting to try some OR wines.” I was hoping to find a Goodfellow Chardonnay but the only Goodfellow left on the shelf was this sole bottle.
Part of the reason I don’t drink much domestic is that I’ve mostly found Euro wines typically provide what I think to be a better value than domestic. Since there is no sales tax here in OR I was out the door with this for $19.99. It is unmistakably fine OR fruit but in terms of qualitative value, I think it whoops nearly everything to be found here from Europe and I love that. When I told Phil this is what I picked up he said “I’ve known @Marcus_Goodfellow for 15 or 20 years. One of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. Happy that his wine is good.”
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You are friends with one of my favorite people in wine importing/distributing. I met him when he was bringing P-S wines into the Heathman in 2000 and we had an excellent selection of his wines on the list while I was there. His choices of such traditional wines, so often producers I had never heard of or read about, remains one of the biggest influences on me. Along with the wines I bought from Bryan Shuttleworth at the Cellar Door and the wines Don Heistuman (Domaine Selections) and Perry Bishop (the Beaune imports portfolio) brought into the restaurant, Phil’s wines instilled in me that I could travel to far away places just by opening a bottle and paying attention and that small country wines could be everything you want. Though he also introduced me to Muga and the 1991 Prado Enea bottling. Tell him that I said hello!
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Nice bottle of Chambolle Musigny. Needed a lot of air for fruit to settle down.
Crazy thing is that it was best 2nd day - 2005s will live a very long time
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We went out to Pinch here in McMinnville for our 48th anniversary, and took along a 2010 Brick House Boulder Block Pinot. The wine was pale garnet, with a very effusive nose of cherries, violets, raspberries. On the palate, the aromas were joined by baking spices and fine tannins in the finish. The wine well balanced, with a good foundation of acid and a long finish. I was a bit surprised how primary the wine remained after 14 years, but in any event, it was delicious. No picture because I left the bottle for the restaurant staff to finish.
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Happy 48th to you and Jan! And this is a good reminder that I should drink some of my Brick House PN stash.
Two very classic(/boring) producers but the wines were IMO extremely good and well-made without being very idiosyncratic. The Volnay was beautiful and youthful (like me): morello cherry, redcurrants, a bit of forest floor and mushroom, and just very fragrant. The Laguiche I feel are a good value-play in the classic, oldschool way - just all the expected flavours presented harmoniously together with well-integrated oak.
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Okay, it wasn’t today but had this last week.
Crazy story to this one… the Petrus was purchased at an estate sale for $1, I kid you not. Storage condition questionable, and the wine wasn’t in great shape, but was still remarkably drinkable with a short window of greatness.
The winner, hands down, was the 1890 port. A 100pt wine if there ever was one…complexity off the charts and length that is measured in minutes not seconds. Unbelievable eye opening wine experience for me.
Opened many great bottles that evening and very grateful to the guest who shared these special bottles.
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A QPR of a Petrus.
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We had the Heater Allen Christmas Party last night. The Dibolt-Valois Champange is lovely, and we went through three bottles. There were two Perkins-Harter magnums of Chardonnay, 2017 and 2018. Both were excellent, but I think I preferred the 2017. 2020 Lytton Springs is unlikely to be ready to drink in my lifetime. The 2020 Geyerserville needs time, but I found it more approachable now. We also had two Goodfellow/Matello Syrahs from 2013 and 2015. I think I preferred the 2015, but both were superb. It was a good thing that people were drinking a lot of beer, because I was running out of wine!
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I def prefer the 2017s over the 2018. 2018 was the first vintage off Bracken and those vines were planted in early 2016. Babies. Youngins…but they did good for their age! Glad you enjoyed and happy holidays!
@DomaineChantePerdrix, 2005 CdP
Gorgeous Provençal bouquet, meat broth, menthol, spice cake action. Stored for 17 years.
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Like all right-thinking Berserkers, I bought some Agrapart to try based on @Mike_Evans advice.
Delicious. Touch of dosage meets stony minerality.
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Was very excited to open this 2016 Nervi Conterno Gattinara Vigna Valferana with our steak last night. It was super tight upon opening though, and after 2 hours it was only just starting to open up and show a bit of its aromatic and fruit qualities. So we left the wine in the decanter for tonight, and I suspect after a day it’ll be showing very nicely tonight.
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A full 8 days later and this wine is drinking as great as it was then with fridge storage and a fully filled 350 ml bottle. Finished over a few hours while prepping xmas dinner.
