Cross posting for the Goodfellow in the mix. Gave the #6 a good long decant (3+ hours). A beautiful wine.
Just saying the pork shumai came from left field and put your charity at the top of the list
Yes! The Atlanta Food Bank or your city’s food bank. And, by the way, the pork shumai, along with everything else, came from https://www.jenchans.com/. Credit where it’s due, and it is.
2017 Goodfellow Whistling Ridge “Long Acre” Pinot Noir.
Opened and let sit on counter while sipping over a few hours. As soon as I opened the wonderful earthy aroma I enjoy from Pinot Noir came out of the bottle. Dark cherry, sous bois, mushrooms. Just lovely stuff throughout the day.
Planned on having some left for tomorrow, but not likely.
Also cross-posting for the 2015 Whistling Ridge PN. Wonderful stuff. Still a little tight, but lots of really nice stuff on both the nose and palate. So glad I’ve got two more coming from the fall 2025 offering. 
Cross-posting from “Which Champagne are you drinking” , where this bottle earned its place in that thread.
NV Goodfellow Family Cellars Chardonnay Blanc de Blancs Durant Vineyard
For Thanksgiving, this was the perfect bottle. My second time with this wine and I’m just as impressed. The balance is spot on, the bead is fine, and the apple, pear, and almond notes are clean and focused. There’s enough cut to keep it fresh, with great length and a persistent finish. This would hold its own in any lineup.
Allow me to shower more love upon this wine. It’s fun to follow this over the course of the evening as it shows very differently after it warms. It’s fruit forward at first, expressing lovely sweet apple, pear, baking spices and pastry dough. As it warms, it broadens and lengthens, the acid becomes more assertive and brings a salt water character to the lengthy finish which reminds me of good Chablis. I love the lifted density , and am surprised by the amount of autolysis in the wine after just two years on the lees. This makes me very excited to try the Whistling Ridge BdB and Marcus’ still Chardonnays.
Also working on the Durant BdB tonight. Still has a steely, burnt popcorn reductive edge to it but behind and around that there is a truly delicious slug of citrus, apple/pear, and salty chalkiness. Refreshing and quenching acidity, really nice length on the finish and impressive impact and breadth on the palate. Love this bottle, certainly my favorite of the original release trio of sparklers.
Have a 2020 Durant Chardonnay on deck for this weekend. How are folks experience with this vintage?
Fwiw additional bottle time does seem to have helped with the persistence of the mousse in this.
I drank through a six pack of these, so I guess my experience was pretty good! Obviously, I chose not to treat it as a long ager.
Last night I finished the second half of my bottle of 2015 Goodfellow Whistling Ridge PN. While it was very nice night one, it seemed to flesh out some by night two, and I felt improved.
Decided then to open the 2015 Goodfellow Heritage No. 6 (Fir Crest). It was a “wow” wine last evening, showing more on both the nose and palate than the Whistling Ridge, and just packed full of delicious, as Scott notes. Enjoyed just a little over a third of the bottle and tonight I am enjoying the rest of the bottle. Very much the same as last evening. Really wonderful wine.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! It looks like the holiday was well celebrated by all, and it’s great to see so many notes.
The 2015s do seem ascendant right now, they take some time to open up but across the board they all seem to be in a great spot. While it was a warm vintage it’s definitely my favorite for Pinot Noir of the “solar” vintages we’ve dealt with. 2014 has an iron grip on the best warm year whites we’ve ever made and it’s really wonderful to see how well the wines from these hot years are holding up.
It’s also wonderful to see the love for the sparkling wines, especially the Durant Blanc de Blancs. That bottling really seems to be coming into its own, although with no rush to open it. We’re disgorging the second cuvee of the Durant Blanc de Blancs the day after tomorrow, with a Spring release in mind. It’s a fairly traditional NV with 70% 2022 and 30% 2021 and should be a great follow up to the original cuvee. A little more richness/body, and a really wonderful expression of the tranquil nature of Durant showing orchard fruits, hazelnuts, and citrus oil.
Best to everyone and thank you!
Great note Chris, thank you! We had the 2016 at our harvest din er and it was fuzzy for about 20 minutes and then just really opened up, and clarified. It really did remind me of finding a radio staion on the FM dial in the 80s. A great reminder of how well that wine ages and as your vertical goes to 2015, IIRC, worth opening one if you have more than a single bottle.
Excellent beard btw.
I turns out I have four 2015s and haven’t had one since release! I was shooting for the ten year mark and here we are. The 2016 and 2018 have reached critical inventory stage of one bottle each.
This seems like a good place to first announce this …
We have, as of now, 4 - 5 open spots for an intimate winemaker-led tasting of Goodfellow/Matello wines that my wife and I will be hosting on Jan. 6 at our place. That’s right, Marcus and Megan will be there! 
Goodfellow sparklers, Matello Pinots, and others will be open – Marcus is driving that boat. My wife and I live in the south South Bay of Los Angeles, and given that it’s a school night we will likely be looking to get things kicked-off somewhere around 5:30 or 6:00 p.m., is my best guess atm. Once the group is finalized, we’ll communicate in the background re: details such as time, exact location, and food.
Please reply to this post if you would like to attend, and I will add you to the list. If, by midnight this Saturday, we get more than 4 or 5 folks expressing a desire to attend, I will do a random draw of those names, with remainder going on a wait list; anyone expressing interest after that will go on the wait list.
Hoping to see some of you there! 
- Brian