Hahaha. You’re the best buddy. Pick any PGC vintage and I’ll try to open a bottle tomorrow. But choose wisely…
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Alright, I did not receive a vintage request from Terry, but I received a message. Spoiler alert, Terry is opening a 2015 PGC this evening. I’ll try to pull a 2015 tomorrow afternoon. I’ve already left the house for dinner. I brought a PGC neighbor, 2002 Beaux Freres Upper Terrace Pinot Noir, and 2018 Walter Scott Seven Springs Chardonnay.
James
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A couple of weeks or so ago I decided to take a peek at some of my 2021s, including the 2021 Estate Wadensvil. That wine is out-of-this-world wonderful (still) right now.
So, tonight I thought I would check in on an Estate Wadensvil that has ten years post-vintage. Just over two hours in the decanter, then back into the bottle. This 2015 too is just a wonderful wine. 
This was our inaugural bottling of this block. This was a nice starting point. I haven’t had this in a long time but i remember we felt that its red fruit and super lush texture separated it from other wines in the vineyard. The block has changed and strengthened over the past 10 years. The 2021 will take some years to come around. The 2023 is a marvel.
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Anyone else pull the trigger on the recent PGC “wine club” release of three additional 2023 bottlings? I’ve got 6-each coming. Looking forward to these, and the additional 2023s to be released. 
From the recent email:
"2023 Estate Vineyard, Patty’s Block Pinot Noir. 100% Pommard Clone Pinot Noir from a 1.81 acre block, Ribbon Ridge AVA, $75. 194 cases, 1.5L, 3L and 5L bottles. The Estate Vineyard, Patty’s Block has a uniqueness even within the context of a vineyard that has produced 7 other distinct Estate Vineyard Pinot Noir bottlings. This block has been producing a wonderful, darker fruited wine that showed the nuance that is the hallmark of the Old Vine bottling. In 2023 a new version of this block appeared. The wine is deeper and sweeter in fruit than it has been previously. There is a lushness that works with the dark fruit to give it a that extra dimension that our best wines, especially from the Estate Vineyard, display. This is like a theoretical cross between the Bonshaw Block bottling and the First Vines bottlings (done in 2017 and 2018). This is a fully unique wine in a special place in our vineyard. We think Patty would have found this wine worthy of the time and effort we put into bringing this block from its infancy in 1998 to this grand state we now have the privilege to witness and experience.
2023 La Belle Promenade Vineyard, Ghost Barn Block Pinot Noir. 100% Pommard Clone Pinot Noir from a 1.4 acre block, Chehalem Mountain AVA, $75. 252 cases, 1.5L, 3L and 5L. The 2023 La Belle Promenade Vineyard, Ghost Barn Block Pinot Noir is the second bottling of this individual block within the vineyard. The bottling in 2022 and now again in 2023 shows the nature of its steep western facing aspect in distinct ways. There is a lot of complexity in this highly appealing wine as the dichotomy between the acid and texture allows the wine to toggle between red and black fruits, from higher-pitched tones to incredibly full or even fluffy sorts of texture and to display an incredible range of flavor types associated with fruit, spice, powdery minerals and richer stony/earthy facets. In a lineup of 34 wines produced by us in the 2023 vintage this wine is a unique standout.
2023 La Belle Promenade Vineyard, Wadensvil Block Pinot Noir. 100% Wadensvil Clone Pinot Noir from a 1.4 acre block, Chehalem Mountain AVA, $75. 237 cases, 1.5L, 3L and 5L. The 2023 La Belle Promenade Vineyard, Wadensvil Block Pinot Noir is our first bottling of this clone after starting with the vineyard in 2019. We had sourced fruit from another block of Wadensvil Clone in 2022 that we presumed was the better of the two blocks. In 2023 we took Block 4 on almost as an afterthought. Sometimes you cannot judge a book by its cover. While Block 21 is excellent in the 2023 vintage, Block 4 produced wine of a quality and pleasure-delivering ability that only a few wines we have ever made have ever achieved. The intensity of this bottling cannot be understated. This is what first attracted me to this wine even while it was still in fermenter. The fruit here is of a piercing nature and is a combination of deeply red and black fruits including currants, pomegranate, blackberries and Oregon strawberries. The structure to this wine is probably more than many wines would be able to handle, but in the context in which it finds itself, it is the perfect infrastructure. The acidity is bright but only within the confines of the redder fruit tones that swirl in and out. This is a special bottling in a vintage literally filled with incredible treasures of Pinot Noir."
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Tasted the “Pattys Block” at the winery last week. It’s structured—but there’s lots going on there. I will
Probably hold mine 5+yrs if not longer. Another winner.
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The 2023 Patty’s Block is quite structured despite being fully destemmed, as were all the Estate Pinots in 2023. The 2024 will largely be made up of 100% whole cluster fermentations and it will not be as structured as the 2023. Marcus has alluded to this difference between the 2023s and 2024s. Despite their infrastructure differences they’re both vintages of enormous quality. 2024 probably will allow for rewards in earlier drinking windows and 2023 will likely require some time to get similar style results.
You can’t lose on these three wines or, really, any of the 2023s we bottled. It’s all relative to what you enjoy in wines but the quality level is essentially pinned.
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And sorry Terry, I opened a 2015 PGC Medici last weekend. I’ll post a photo later.
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How was the wine. I have two bottles sleeping. Should wake them from their slumber?
The 2015 or the 2009?
Firsts either way. Our run with Medici lasted from 2015-2021 (I would love to have had a crack at all the blocks at Medici we had in 2015 for the length of our term. Bishop Creek was 2009 and 2010 only. Really liked both of those wines but haven’t had one in over a decade.
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2015 Medici
Seems apologizing is about the last thing one would want to do when it comes to pulling a cork on and taking a journey with a PGC Pinot Noir . . . . 
I would hold the 2015 Medici. The tannins were more aggressive on Day 2 and 3, but they have calmed down the remainder of the week. Once again opened last Sunday night.
The 2009 shows the hallmarks of the vintage. Some warmth and a darker fruit profile. All of the components seem in harmony. Delicious wines. I was going through my inventory list at the bar on Friday night and thought that the 2009 made sense for my 49 bday weekend.
Terry, I promised to open your choice of vintages, 2015, and I failed by a week and 2 weeks to post. Hence my apology. I think that most of my 2015 PGC’s are at the X’s, so it took me a week to find them. I’ve failed at many things as a lifelong bachelor, but I’ve always tried to keep my promises. Hope all is well.
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Well, certainly no need to apologize to me, James. And, for that matter, it was me not getting my choice of vintage made and in turn communicating it to you until to late that particular day, that was the disconnect. We’ll hopefully try this again later this year, with more lead time (and perhaps with some others joining in!).
My 2015 Estate Wadensvil I had two weeks ago was closer to the “young” side of things than those various “older” PGC wines I’ve been enjoying the past eight months or so. Not presenting as young, obviously, as the 2021, but still on that side of things. Both, to me, incredibly delicious.
I’ve got one more of the 2015 Estate Wadensvil bottles (in fact, my only 2015 left in the cellar right now) that I will hold for some time. I suspect over time I’ll pick up some additional 2015s via Winebid, but I went through a handful or two that I picked up via Coutier in my initial hunt for some (to me, at the time) older bottles.
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The 2015 Medici was our first vintage with the site. Every year after we got much less fruit from basically 2 blocks (it was 3 but 1 block was so small that calling it 2 even though they were different clones and vine ages seems silly even by our standards). But in 2015 we got a lot of stuff. I wish I had had more experience, overall, at the time and and a better feeling for the site. There were some missed opportunities there. Not that the 2015 wasn’t a very good wine but there were things we could have and now would have done differently that would have yielded a greater range of possibilities.
It’s a weird and wonderful old site with crazy long and steep rows (nightmare for sampling). Had it had perfect and deep pocketed ownership over its lifetime could have been one one of the truly special sites in Oregon. But that’s not how it played out. We had a nice 6 vintage run which was fun. Would love to taste them all together some time. I don’t even know if we have a library of them with which we could do that. So it goes.
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2007 Patricia Green Balcombe 1b, one of my favorite bottlings.
Pnp, followed over the evening. Very nice out the gate, ripe strawberry, cherry, hints of baking spice and mushroom. Not much on the nose. Medium body, juicy acidity, silky mouthfeel, just entering tertiary phase. Perfect spot for me, with 5+ years of development easy.
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This may be my first PG that I felt was truly mature or at peak, and unlikely to significantly improve with time. Aromatics all there, in an elegant nuanced profile. Curious what the whole cluster was on this as I’m pretty sure it’s in there but I was not 100% sure.
- 2010 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir Bonshaw Block Estate Vineyard - USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley, Ribbon Ridge (7/1/2025)
Lighter colored, with some moderate bricking. Orange ring, tea, sous bois notes. Light, fresh palate, teriary fruit. Finish is wonderful and elegant, but does get clipped and metallic, implying we are a bit past peak—however this filled out and did improve with air. Still, I’d start drinking up. (90 points)
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This sounds about right to me. I’m not personally a fan of the 2010s overall. I know they turned out to be better wines than I anticipated but the hardships of that vintage remain in the memory banks in ways that make it difficult to parse out the wines versus the winemaking (and vineyard management). 15 years and still doing well, if not having more upside, I think sounds right to me.
Without digging around to find notes, I would suspect that there is no whole cluster in that wine. We simply didn’t do that much back then and it wasn’t a great vintage for it anyway given the hens/chicks and the bird damage.
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