Wait, did someone mention PGC 2016?…
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Ha!
Painfully long story short. We moved recently to make selling our house more streamlined (that’s worked great so far☹️) and we’re back into a rental. It all happened through some back channels and came together in a blur. The people that own the house we’re in are very nice. We wanted to give them a few bottles of wine but we had moved a bunch of stuff around and I didn’t really have any Patricia Green Cellars left at the house. Except for a bottle of 2016 Singularity. So, I gave that to them. They shared it with some friends and kind of freaked out and have emailed about buying some. They didn’t know it was a tiny, in-house only bottling of super special stuff.
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I just bought four of the 22s that were on sale at the winery yesterday. (Two of the six were sold out.) This is the first time I have purchased any PGC.
I looked at the drinkability chart, but I am still not sure that I know the answer to this question: How long should I wait before opening these four bottles?
Thanks for any advice anyone can offer.
What did you get? Most of the wines cru is through a couple of decades but some drink better earlier.
BTW, am currently working on updating the chart.
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Jim,
Which bottlings would you recommend for earlier consumption?
Chehalem Mountain Vineyard
Durant Vineyard, Madrone Block
Estate Vineyard
Freedom Hill Vineyard
Freedom Hill Vineyard, Dijon 115
La Belle Promenade Vineyard
Lia’s Vineyard
Marine Sedimentary
Reserve
Volcanic
Plenty to choose from although all of those do fine with 10++ years of bottle age.
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I bought:
22 Anderson Family
22 Anklebreaker
22 Wadensvil Clone
22 Marine Sedimentary
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The Anderson should drink well young. The Anklebreaker for sure will not. Not sure which Wadensvil Clone that is since we made 4 in 22. I am going to guess Freedom Hill. That will be pretty good short term. Very red fruited but will have some tannin. It’s such a good wine though it should do okay. The 22 Marine will be darker than the FH Wadensvil but should also be tasty if with structure when young.
I think they just had this open in the tasting room recently and that it showed very well. I’m always cautious about 2010s but at this point they’ve exceeded my initial expectations so I should stop worrying.
Given what Margaret offered in the recent email (killer deals, btw), I am simply guessing it is the Chehalem Moutain Vineyard Wadensvil. 
All this talk (much of it with myself) today about the 2022 PGC Pinots, decided to open a 2022 PGC Corrine Vineyard, Wadensvil Block, tonight. Delicious wine. 
Shows how up on current events am I! The Chehalem Mountain should drink well. It’s a step up and different block then the 21 which is pretty severe. I would guess it’s doing nicely.
Correct.
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This has been a personal fave of mine dating back to our inaugural vintage in 2009 when it was called Olenik Vineyard. Last vintage is 2023.
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Sad to hear 2023 will be the end of the run. That 2011 Olenik I had a few months back was so nice. Pretty unique, too. Saved just under half of tonight’s 2022 in order to revisit it tomorrow evening. Really tasty stuff, and just a wonderful nose on the wine.
It is sad but it also is what it is. Over the years we/I have had the opportunity to work with some amazing sites. Sometimes that relationship only lasted a few years. I have learned that you do what you can and let go when required and not feel remorse for it. We had a 15 year run and that’s more than we maybe could have hoped for. We survived the selling of the property and moved on when we had to. We made 22 (I think) bottlings from 2 different sections of the site. I sat in that vineyard for hours sometimes. We have stones we collected from it to brace up the bottom of our landscaping below the tasting room. I’ve walked up and down that place and fallen SO many times there. We had our time. Hopefully folks will make good on what we did. We have wines that will last past the end of my life from there. It’s all good.
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Picked up some library wines to see what these are like with some age.
2006 PGC Old Vine Estate, Ribbon Ridge is medium ruby with lightening at the rim and a hint of bricking. Strawberry, floral, mouth-watering umami nose, medium body, nice aged complexity, fruit is still there, medium finish. Excellent.
A very different experience from young or adolescent PGCs which are bigger and bolder. Happy to have a few more.
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Those 2006s continue to hold up in ways that belie the nature of the vintage. I think our Old Vine bottling has thrived in warmer vintages. Nice to hear that a wine that started off as a pretty big wine has settled into itself!
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2010s in general or just yours?