I ignored his sarcastic remark. It was when he went back and added the turd emoji that I got involved. When someone tells me that they would like to sh!t on me they should be aware that they need to knock me down first. And good luck trying.
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The 2024s are in the discussion for best vintage ever. So, yes, the wines are excellent across the board, IMO.
As far as this particular bottling goes there is a distinct change from the previous bottlings monikered as such. Another winery gave up a 2-acre block of Wadensvil at the top of the hill. We also acquired a 1-acre block of Dijon 667 next to our Pommard block. We gave up a 2.25 acre block and a separate 1 acre block of Dijon 115. We also reduced the bottling size of our block designates from Freedom Hill. So, we acquired 3 acres that I found to be far superior in quality to 3.25 acres we turned over and we took many barrels that went into $55 and $75 wines and put them in a $37 wine.
There’s a little more to it than all that but that’s the big picture. Lot more wine, higher overall quality and same price.
That is the way.
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Oh good/oh no, I’m going to go spend more money on wine
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You can look at it as spending less money on wine!
As many car dealers have likely said, “If you don’t call me today, I can’t save you any money.”
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There’s something really special about the work ya’ll do with Wadensvil blocks, so this update to the FH fruit sourcing sounds like icing to an already iced cake.
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Man…it had been pretty easy to pick up aged PGC stuff on WineBid recently, but I just got absolutely blitzed this week. Shout out to tehar38 I guess.
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Ha! As good as that wine is vintage in and vintage out, it rarely would crack into the top of the heap of the vintage. 2022 is the exception. That wine is right there with anything we produced in 2022 which is a very good vintage.
Glad we’re exceeding expectations.
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I’m trying to behave. No, really, I truly am. 
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Yes, but you’ve kicked down lots of other doors.
I think you’ll find the Oregon producers are firing on all cylinders.
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Nice! Good combo!!
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We Berserkers need to start colluding.
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Monopole Cru WineBid collusion thread 
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That’s a vintage that’s too old for it to be around at all at the winery and too young for me to have a reason to get into that wine. But 2019 is a really lovely and graceful vintage which probably serves that particular bottling well.
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Got impatient waiting for all my PGC Pinots to be ready, so I popped this one last night. Didn’t write down notes so this is purely from recollection: as expected for such a young wine, this had a tidal wave of raspberry/cherry fruit flavor. Behind that, very noticeable vine texture/ taste, plenty of tannic structure to make this last a long time. Tasted like a little lower acidity than I am used to with PGC but that might just be a side effect of the primary ebullience shouting down everything else. Nevertheless, a great future ahead for this wine.
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Taking one for the team!! 
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In the name of science, I opened another of my 2022 Corrine Wadensvil bottles yesterday. Best showing yet, as it was quite delicious and everything seemed to be working together nicely. I’ve mostly been staying away from most of my PGC 2022s, as I am guessing they will really benefit from some time left alone (yeah, I know, I know, so out of character for me . . . 
). That said, the basic Freedom Hill and the Freedom Hill Dijon 115 bottlings in 2022 have been firing on all cylinders and a bit of an exception, at least for me. 