Post-pandemic, we were suppose to stop day drinking???
I thought we were just suppose to shift to PGC rosé.
I don’t think so but apparently people went back to their jobs and stuff and couldn’t enjoy some 11% ABV Muscat Ottonel at 10:30 AM on a Tuesday.
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It is kind of like this.
Jim works in mysterious ways. Super dark, but radiant. Super dense, but elegant. Super structured, but playful. I will say this: as the second 2016 I’ve had in the last month, this one also needs five more years at least.
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Work from home, Jim. Now I have to wait until noon for the 13.5% wines. What kind of life is that? Not one I want to live forever.
Our Tempranillo Rose barely gets to 12%!
Great run with this awesome vineyard from 2016-2022. Just awesome stuff. That one might be the apex although the 2021 is insane. They’re all super good. Can’t lose.
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At the risk of thread drift, beer saved the world. It’s true - I’ve seen the History Channel documentary . . . . 
I was kind of shocked at what a beast it still was, being Dundee Hills and all. I mistakenly thought it would be an earlier drinker and I kind of regret having opened it so soon. Only one left.
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Arcus is different than most Dundee Hill sites. The blocks we received were places that really pulled lots of intensity from the ground.
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I had my first PG - a 2023 Freedom Hill poured BTG at a wine bar in San Jose. Delicious stuff, showing very well
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Nice. We’re able to offer the Freedom Hill Vineyard “classsic” bottling at a price where it can still get glass poured at certain places. And we now produce enough of it that it has a fairly broad reach. The 2023 is really terrific and the soon to come (we’re sold out of the 23 at the winery) is a notch up due to purchasing some new blocks and allocating a bit more of the block designate stuff to this bottling.
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We took one for the team a couple of days ago and sampled a ‘21 Notorious. We just had a hankering for some full on PGC and this one spoke to us. What a powerhouse! Our second bottle will remain unmolested for many years.
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Notorious is its own thing. Try the 2023. That’s something else all together!
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On my Patricia Green to-buy list, among others!
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This past month I opened the 2023 Freedom Hill “classic” bottling and it was so damn good. Consumed it over two evenings, and opened a 2023 Freedom Hill Dijon 115 the second night (and then finished the Dijon 115 that third night. It too was just so nice both of its evenings.
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Finishing out the year with another older PGC: the 2009 Estate “classic” bottling. Decanted off the sediment and then back into the bottle ten minutes later. On my second glass. So damn delicious.
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I’m a fan of the sneaky good 2009 vintage. It got HOT during the summer. At the time I was living in a 100+ year old, south facing, 3-story house with no central air. Had to move out for 5 days as the house never got under 100 even at night. Not every vineyard or block performed its best; we didn’t make Eason Vineyard, Estate Bonshaw Block and our one year getting fruit from Red Hills Vineyard did not go great. But the stuff that worked out was top notch. Arcus Vineyard, Whistling Ridge Vineyard, Estate Etzel Block, Olenik Vineyard, Balcombe Vineyard Block 1B and probably others really performed at super-high levels. Glad that the regular Estate Vineyard was holding its own.
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Fantastic 2009. Brings back happy memories.
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Another beautiful PGC with some bottle age: 2006 Goldschmidt Pinot Noir.
From the Vintage Chart, it appears the grapes from this vineyard were bottled as a vineyard-designated bottling 2002 through this year, 2006. Delicious stuff.
Happy New Year, folks!! 
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This is/was a great vineyard (those old vines are long gone) and we had a great 5 year run before it was sold in 2007. We still bought fruit from there from 2007-2009 but the moment had passed. The 2006 was a monumental wine back in the day. Absolute Mt. Rushmore wine in our first ten vintages. Glad it’s still doing its thing.
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