Completely agree on that. @Jim_Anderson you’ve been put on notice to set aside a couple bottles for me!
Glad it’s working for you! 2004s aren’t my personal name but people like them!
Yeah, it didn’t evolve or gain complexity very much over several hours, but had an impressive amount of fruit considering it’s 20 years old. Not fading at all.
Sounds like 2004. Lots of fruit. Very good but doesn’t evolve the way a 2001, 2002, 2005 would in terms of wines if similar ages. It was a weird and sort of depressing vintage given the horrifically small yields and inconsistent patterns throughout vineyards. That’s they’re decent at 20 years is encouraging and surprising but it’s just not a vintage that should blow you away.
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Check your email and spam folder for a special from Margaret.
30% off on bunch of stuff.
I ordered last week!
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Opened a 2015 Freedom Hill Vineyard for Frank’s virtual charity Pinot Noir event today. It’s really beautiful.
But also, have a 2022 Chehalem Mountain Vineyard that I opened Wednesday evening, enjoyed half the bottle and put remaining wine into a 375 bottle and into the fridge. Enjoyed a glass last evening and am now enjoying the remaining wine on this third night. It’s so damn good.
I love the 2021 Chehalem Mountain Vineyard and this 2022 is every bit as wonderful. For that matter, both the Chehalem Mountain Vineyard and Chehalem Mountain Vineyard, Wadensvil Clone, so far have been my favorites of the 2022’s Pinots Jim has given us. Just wonderful stuff. 
Glad the 2015 was showing.
We journeyed into Chehalem Mountain Vineyard in 2019 with a super small block bottling. In 2021 we expanded to several blocks in the site and bottled a large bottling (1,200 cases) that was really lovely and great (I thought) at the price. Repeated in 2022. Less blocks in 2023 with a somewhat smaller production (860 cases). And that’s it. We did not renew our contract in 2024. I wanted to make somewhat less wine (if you’ve seen the winery you would understand) and we only wanted to work with internally farmed vineyards (or ones using very small management companies). That wasn’t the case here. Still, it’s a terrific and historical site and the quality of the wine was (IMO) excellent.
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