Happy BD IX everybody! It seems like there’s a huge amount of energy in the air this year, so I wanted to pull out all the stops for number IX!
This year, for anyone ordering a 6 pack, shipping is $20, but if you double down and get 12 bottles I will keep the shipping at $20. This includes the shipper and any sales tax that applies.
Without further ado, here are the options for this year!
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- The Rick Allen: 2 bottles 2015 Goodfellow Willamette Valley Chardonnay, 2 bottles 2015 Goodfellow Durant Chardonnay, 2 bottles 2015 Goodfellow Whistling Ridge Chardonnay “Richard’s Cuvee”
Normally $220, for BD IX $178!
There is a tremendous amount of really superb Chardonnay being produced in the Willamette Valley
right now. The wines are complex, balanced, and defined by precision and focus rather than opulence and richness. I take a huge amount of pride in the white wines I produce, and with the sites I work with. These Chardonnays are produced from older vines in two of Oregon’s best dry farmed vineyards. I pick the fruit with modest sugars and while acidity is still vibrant, then ferment them to dry over 4-6 months(most of the 2017 Goodfellow chardonnay fruit is still fermenting at this time), the wines go through malo-lactic in the late spring or summer, and then are allowed to rest on the lees for at least another 12-14 months, being only racked at bottling and after a 21 month process. They develop a beautiful weight, subtle leesy nuances, with a great finishing minerality and acidic freshness. Cellar them and they will continue to evolve and improve over several years.
- The Griswold: 2 bottles 2015 Goodfellow Whistling Ridge Pinot Noir, 2 btls 2014 Goodfellow Durant Pinot Noir, 2 blts 2015 Goodfellow Fir Crest Pinot Noir
Normally $270, for BD IX $216
For the person looking for a beautiful journey through three of Oregon’s best known AVAs, this set starts in the sedimentary soils of Ribbon Ridge, moves over to the volcanic in the Dundee Hills, and finishes with a new single vineyard for me. In Yamhill Carlton, the Fir Crest vineyard was planted in 1985 and this old vine Wadensville offering really embodies the darker fruit I think of in Yamhill Carlton wines, while having a great bump of spice aromatics from the stems, and killer acidity.
The 2015 Whistling Ridge and 2014 Durant offerings are both typical of my wines for structure, but are great examples of how aromatically compelling these vineyards can be.
- The Ron Felthoven: 2 btls 2015 Goodfellow Heritage #4, 2 bottles 2015 Goodfellow Heritage #5, and 2 bottles Heritage #6.
Typically $420- BD IX price-$330
These wines truly represent the best expression of terroir from 2015. Each stays extraordinarily true to vineyard that produced the wine, and in each case is one of the best bottlings I have ever been fortunate enough to produce. I have been working with Whistling Ridge for 14 years and the Heritage #4 is perhaps the best wine I have produced from this site. The only other possible contender is the 2010 vineyard designate. It is a remarkable site and the #4 is a truly remarkable wine. #5 is one of the most enjoyable bottles of Pinot Noir around, it’s a good bit more hedonistic than my usual Durant bottling, but that’s really the nature of this fruit in 2015. The #6 is easily the best wine I have ever made from Yamhill-Carlton fruit, its a tiny production, of old vine Wadensville from Fir Crest, 75% whole cluster, and aged 19 months before being racked and bottled. Beautifully dark and sleek, but with a distinctly rugged cut to it. The #6 is most definitely what the “most interesting man in the world” in the Dos Equis ads wishes he was drinking.
These are wines I make with the intention to leave them for my sons, so I don’t really recommend Pobega-ing them, but that doesn’t stop me from opening them at appointments either.
For orders, please pm me or email at marcus@goodfellowfamilycellars.com
Have a great BD and here’s to vintage 2018!