2005 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir

Wow, what a wine. Had this last night and am now seeking a case or 2 of it. Wonderful example of berry flavors + a little bit of tar to it creating an incredible balance which demonstrates its terroir beautifully. If you can find a bottle of this get your hands on it. While this wine is perfectly drinkable now it does have a small hint of tannin which would be reduced with a year or so on the bottle- but it's not enough to keep me from drinking this wine right now.

Where did you get your store of this pleasing vintage? Is it a vineyard that will be widely represented say at Binny's outlets? Or is it more rare, requiring a special trip somewhere?

Well I am about to order a case directly from the vinyard, but the bottle I had was out here where I live in DC (I'm moving to chicago in a few months)

It seems to be available for less than the price at the vineyard. Try here
http://www.wine-searcher.com/ . Cheers.

deesher wrote:It seems to be available for less than the price at the vineyard. Try here
http://www.wine-searcher.com/ . Cheers.

Indeed- with many of those they do not specify if these are the Estate bottling- you want the estate bottling if you are going to buy this.

Sam's used to carry a few different P Green PN cuvees, but it does not seem like they have any right now. Do you know which of her Pinot Noirs this was? I infer from the follow up post that it was the "Estate" and not Oregon, Notorious, Four Winds, Quail Hill, or Croft.

She does make an interesting variety of well-crafted Pinots at a very fair price, relative to what you are getting. I have always wanted to like them more than I actually have liked them. Neither rotting barnyard or simple fruit, they have always struck me as betwixt and between. But I may go back and try some again based on this enthusiastic endorsement, as her approach and pedigree have always struck me as quite admirable.

I don't know which Sam's would have been carrying- I live out in DC right now so our selection is different than what you'd be getting, plus our selections out in this area are pretty slim pickins between Costco and Sams- If you are finding growers you like but wanted to like more, I think the 05 vintage in the Pacific NW accentuated the positives for these growers- especially in Oregon and Washington. The Willamette valley just got the perfect season in 05 that has enabled for some wonderful lush production with a significant reduction in that tannic flavor we seemed to used to get a lot of out of OR Pinots.

PG makes a bunch of wines, in different styles. In fact you can find both a typical left coast fruit-bomb and a much more barnyardy frenchy-type wine among her offerings.

I don't remember which types of soil her grapes are from, and which clones she uses in which wine, but it really makes a difference there - in addition to the winemaker's hand. Oregon's Willamette Valley has (as I recall) two main and really different kinds of soil, and they produce some really different wines. There are also different clones of the grapes, and they taste really different too.

Dickson, try them again, and pay attention to soil and clone.

I received an E-mail today from Vin Chicago (Wine Discount) with news of the receipt of a number of single vineyard wines from Patricia Green. Here's a link to their web site with details. They don't have a lot of these wines, so if you are interested I suggest that you act quickly.

http://vinchicago.com/index.php?keyword ... Itemid=104

I have been buying Patty and Jim's wines since the 2001 vintage and in quantity. My favorite vineyards were Goldschmidt, Four Winds, and Anden (which they no longer produce). I bought one to two cases of Four Winds every year since it was a great value. These vineyards produced more traditional styled wines. Many of the other vineyard designates are completely different styled wines, bigger, more modern, and not my style.