They’ll be fine with age fit years. I presume you’re speaking about the bottling monikered as solely Freedom Hill Vineyard. That should be the most precocious of the bunch. 2015 should be rip roaring.
I just picked up my whiskey from Vin and bought a bottle of 2021 Freedom Hill.
It’s the Freedom Hill Perspicacious!
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Nice. Couldn’t have been more than 1-2 shops in the country that got that.
Nice!! Multifarious and Francin Barley?
That 2021 Freedom Hill is a barn burner. Great vintage for that site.
Have you checked in on the 18 Notorious?
Not since we bottled it. I can tell you that that will be a very young wine. Will be essentially unchanged since it was bottled and likely will remain that way for another 4-5 years if not more. If you’re good with primary, exotic and full throttle it will drink great. If not then it’s years out.
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Oh you have to read the tasting notes on this one. I blinded the boys. LOL
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- NV Wolves Above / Kelley Fox Wines Blueberry Wine (2023 Edition) - USA, Oregon (12/12/2024)
Served blind. I put this on Barolo initially, as the nose reminded of it--fragrant, rose petal. The wine? Juicy and minty, balanced, with a tarry and spicy finish. With air, this picked up structure. I enjoyed this a lot, and it was superb to have this served with a bag covering the label so that any bias I might have brought with me was parked off to the side. I'd drink this and enjoy it anytime, as it's delicious, and based on what I thought it was, it's also humbling!
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Blind wins again! Now, if we can move that winning result to my hockey team.
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Saw a nod in Jeb Dunnuck’s top 100 list. Coming in at #52, 2022 La Belle Promenade.
Nice.
Didn’t know. That’s funny.
Sorry this project has come to an end. The few cases of 2023 is all that’s left and we aren’t seemingly going forward with this. Definitely not a 2024. So, reach out if you’re interested because this is it.
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- 2022 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir Lia's - USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley, Chehalem Mountains (12/16/2024)
Lively aromatics of wild cranberry, violets, potting soil. Palate shows some red cherry and fresh cranberry that gives way to herbal stems and loamy soil. Finish shows more richness--darker cherry with a kiss of wood and cedar. Certainly a tight tannin structure here with nice acidity to balance.
This wine is rather pretty and for the $35ish a great value. Maybe not a world-beater right now, but this will have plenty to show at 10-12 years. (91 points)
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A little over a year ago I enjoyed my first PGC Lia’s - the 2013 vintage - side-by-side with the 2013 Bonshaw. Both were excellent. I’ve also really enjoyed the 2021 Lia’s and so when the 2022 Lia’s were released I made sure to pick up a full case. I’ve already opened a couple of them (two or more hours in the decanter) and while they were very nice, I plan on giving them a few more months before trying another one. They’re an incredible bargain, as you point out. 
Btw, Erin Brooks (Wine Advocate) just published a review of a number of the PGC 2022s, including Lia’s Vineyard. Lots of glowing reviews. 
Opened a 2022 Freedom Hill, Pommard Clone this Thursday, decanting half the bottle into a 375 which I stoppered and stuck back in the 58 degrees cellar, while I left the other half in the decanter also went back into the cellar for about three hours prior to enjoying it. It was plenty open for business Thursday evening (I was fully prepared for it being a bit too early) and left me swirling and contemplating the nose on this wine, over and over throughout the three hours or so that first evening. Last night I enjoyed the remaining half of the bottle and while changed from the first night, it remained nothing short of wonderful. Both evenings I spent a good half hour or so with that last pour, not wanting it to end. Such an excellent wine.
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I missed the first comment on the 2022 Lia’s as I believe it came during our bout with norovirus. That wine I think has always represented as a really good wine at a terrific price, especially as time went along and we never changed the price. The farming got better around 2019 and I think the wine responded with a broader expression of fruit and more fine tannins. It’s never been as complex as the adjacent Olenik/Corrine Vineyard but it’s more than held it’s own against nearly any Pinot in the $35ish price point.
2023 will be the last bottling.
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Jim, sorry about the norovirus. I was hit with norovirus the fall of 2019. Never been sicker.
The 2022 Freedom Hill Vineyard Pommard Clone was the best of the massive amount of fruit that FH sent us in 2022. It will likely take years for this wine to fully sort itself out. Much darker profile than most of our wines. This is all 50% whole cluster fermentation with the 100% whole cluster being set aside for the Perspicacious bottling. Glad you liked it even it’s painfully youthful current state!
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