http://www.garyswine.com/fine_wine/oregon/62556.htmlCategory: Oregon
Size: 750 ml
Brand: Patricia Green Cellars
Region: Willamette Valley
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Style: Red Wine
Price: $32.99
2010 May Wine Club Cellar Selection
Patricia Green is a pretty humble person with humble beginnings in the wine industry. In the 1980's, she left the re-forestation business literally to pick grapes for Hillcrest Vineyard in Oregon. Within a small amount of time, she had somehow worked her way up the winery ladder to assistant winemaker, and only a few more years later she was known throughout Oregon, by wine critics, and Pinot drinkers as the Famous Patty Green, Pinot Expert.
She made wine and garnered high scores for Torii Mor for six vintages before she got her own name on her own label, a phenomenon she's still a little shy about. "I’m not a name-in-lights kind of gal," she says, but today she is the creative force behind what she humbly calls "a pretty decent little two-person operation."
Patricia and her winemaking partner Jim Anderson believe in the expression of terroir in each individual vineyard, and Croft remains one of her best sources for silky, cherry and earth-laden Pinot Noir.
Patricia Green Cellars is located in the Ribbon Ridge district of Yamhill County on the 52 acre estate purchased in 2000 by Patty Green and Jim Anderson. The winery is noted for producing a tremendously broad selection of Pinot Noirs from far flung vineyards representing some of the better sites in the Ribbon Ridge, Dundee Hills, Chehalem Mountains, and the Eola Hills growing regions. Patricia Green produces Pinot Noirs that show the distinctions of the differing soils and climates of these sites.
Winemaker's Notes:
This wine has some serious guts to it and it may take some time for it to completely unwind and release all the pent up goodness that it holds inside. Still it is a burly, black fruited, masculine, rich, intense wine with a boat load of personality to it. As ageable as any wine we produced in 2008. A seriously interesting wine for those with some patience and cellar space.
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