Patricia Green Cellars
3 New Offers during the Covid-19 Lockdown
Y’all have been killing it on the Muscat. Glad we found a home for this wine. We are down to our last 10 or so cases of the 2017, in fact. So, seeing as others have offered you up a little diversity, we thought we would bust some stuff out to break up the (mostly) singular focus. We have 3 new offers. They are all on the website: Patricia Green Cellars
Once you have placed your orders in the cart and are checking out, there will be a “Coupon Code” field on the right above your order totals. Input “BerserkerShip” and that will activate the complimentary ground shipping on these specific packages. If you live in a state where the temperature is too hot to ship right now and would like to receive your wines before the fall, please call the winery to discuss your options 503-554-0821.
Thanks, and I hope everyone is safe, sound, whole and getting through this without too much loss of any kind.
Offer #1: The New White
2019 Willamette Valley Sauvignon Blanc: This just got bottled on Thursday the 23rd, and while it is straight off the bottling line it tends to be pretty bottle-shock resistant. The bright wine acid-freaks will like this wine. TA of over 8.0 and a pH hovering around 3.10. Still, lots of ripe fruit and a good enough amount of wine weight without it being the least bit heavy. No RS at all. I know from the ‘Top 10 Beverages People Hate’ thread that not everyone out there is an SB fan. This wine could cut both ways. It is not grapefruit-y at all. More tropical fruits with a bunch of lime juice squeezed on top. There is certainly a bit of the typical character of the variety but I think in a pleasant and good sort of manner. If you’re looking for New Zealand you won’t find it here, if you’re looking for Sancerre you should check out the Estate Vineyard bottling. This is fresh, easy and tasty and has more complexity than you would think. Good juice.
This normally goes for $24/bottle. We will do (shipping included) a six-pack at $115 and a full case at $210.
Offer #2: The One-Off
2018 Hyland Vineyard Pinot Noir, Barrel #9: I mentioned this a week or so ago. You can go back into the original offer thread and look at posts #74 and #75 for some context. We started getting fruit from Hyland Vineyard in 2017. In fact, we are one of three wineries that received fruit from the 1989 planting of Coury Clone (our block is adjacent to the fruit that Kelley Fox uses for her bottling). We had 12 barrels of it in 2018 however we only used 11 for the Hyland Vineyard bottling. The barrel of Hyland we left out, all of a sudden last summer turned bitter. Like burnt walnut sort of bitter. You literally couldn’t drink it. No explanation. It was in a once-filled barrel that hadn’t been empty for some time. The wine had been just as good as the other 11 barrels up until it finished ML. I asked other winemakers to taste it and no one had any idea what it was. Ran an extensive lab test on it. Zip. Perfectly normal numbers. So, we put it in a topping tank and nailed it with SO2. It has been there for 7 months now and, of course, it’s fine.
It is quite better than fine. It is supple, rugged, intense, deep, tannic and lively. It shows none of whatever afflicted it last year. I think I still would have considered pulling it from the Hyland bottling as there is a pretty fine distinction between this barrel and the other 11.
Nonetheless, we are where we are at. You might be taking some infinitesimal chance that this wine reverts back, but I would say it is entirely improbable that will happen (read post 74). This is one of our top bottlings from a great and historic site in Oregon. This bottling will punch well over the dollar weight we are offering it, HOWEVER that means it will also act like that. It will be tannic and unwieldy at first and not drink super-well right out of the box.
There is one other thing… We are offering it up here because we trust you good people to keep it on the Downlow! We don’t have a 2018 Hyland Vineyard Coury Clone, Barrel #9 label. Buying a one-off, one-barrel label would have been insanely expensive, so instead we had an open-ended deal with a place to bottle a proprietary wine for them from the 2018 vintage. After the labels were printed, they decided to pass this year, but we still had the label. I would ask that folks don’t post pictures of this, don’t mention it in tasting notes and if you’re posting in Cellar Tracker, please call it what we are selling it as here: “2018 Hyland Vineyard Coury Clone, Barrel #9”. When you get the bottles you will (most likely) understand because the name on the label may be a place you know.
We are offering this at (shipping included) $180/6-pack and $350/case.
Offer #3: The Sample Pack
2018 Patricia Green Cellars Tour of the Cellar: I have been asked by a couple people now who tried the Muscat and the Pinot Noir pack to offer up something that gives an even more broad sense of the Patricia Green Cellars experience. That’s hard to do when you bottle 30 different Pinot Noirs. I always appreciate folks who are new or newer to us coming to me and asking for something like this. I had to go to the powers that be to see what we still have on hand and what, in theory, we will need when we hopefully start selling wine vaguely normally at some point this year. This is what I was able to come up with (1 bottle each):
Estate Vineyard, Old Vine $42
Estate Vineyard, Wadensvil Block $55
Olenik Vineyard, Anklebreaker Block $60
Balcombe Vineyard $42
Weber Vineyard $50
Hyland, Coury Clone Vineyard $75
Freedom Hill Vineyard, Dijon 115 Clone $48
Freedom Hill Vineyard, Wadensvil Clone $48
Marine Sedimentary (All sourced from Chehalem Mountains or Ribbon Ridge AVA sites) $42
Volcanic (All sourced from old vine Dundee Hill sites) $42
Reserve (Our general Willamette Valley blend) $29
Notorious (Blend of the best 4-8 barrels in the cellar) $85
This gives you a look at our 2 “Soil Series” Pinot Noirs, 8 individual vineyard bottlings with some block or clonal variations thrown in, and two of our Willamette Valley blended Pinots (one being a good overall ‘drinking’ wine and the other the ultimate expression of our identity as winemakers). There are certainly different ways to cut up the PGC experience, but this seemed pretty decent given inventory limitations.
The cost for this mixed case is $460 (shipping included)
Again, in order to get shipping included on these offers you will need to input the Coupon Code “BerserkerShip”. As always, if you have issues please call the winery at 503-554-0821.