Winemaker Notes
Brilliant red. Spice-tinged raspberry and cherry aromas are complicated by cola, floral and smoky mineral notes. Sweet and focused on the palate, offering energetic red berry flavors and suggestions of rose pastille and blood orange that build with air. Vibrant and precise in style, delivering solid finishing cut, interwoven tannins and impressive, spicy persistence.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The bright ruby 2022 Pinot Noir Reserve is floral and pretty on the nose, with lots of fresh flowers, grenadine, a fine spice, and dusty earth. Medium-bodied, it fills the palate with a plush, ripe tannins, even acidity, and a light savory finish with delicate notes of tea leaf. It’s approachable now but is going to drink well over the coming 8-10 years. I like the savory note that comes through on the finish as well as the sweet ripe fruit.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Patricia Green Cellars's entry-level cuvée, the 2022 Pinot Noir Reserve, comes mainly from the Freedom Hill, Hyland and Patricia Green Estate vineyards and includes smaller portions from several of the other premier vineyards in their portfolio. Matured in 7% new French oak, it’s earthy on the nose, its core of wild berries accented by notes of mushrooms, damp earth and autumn leaves. The medium-bodied palate is soft and silky with generous layers of bright, perfumed fruit and a long, fragrant finish.
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Vinous
The 2022 Pinot Noir Reserve is vividly fruit-focused with a burst of crushed raspberries, lavender and peppery rose. Silky and sleek, this mixes tart red berries with hints of spicy citrus carried over a core of zesty acidity. This tapers off with steely minerality and palpable with silty tannins that add a pleasantly tactile feel.
Home of some of the planet’s most amazingly elegant and expressive Pinot noir, the Willamette Valley is a pastoral, mixed landscape of green, bucolic rolling hills, dramatic forestlands and small, independent, friendly wine growers. As a leader in environmental stewardship, the valley has some of the nation’s most protective land use policies, with two-thirds of its vineyards farmed sustainably and over half, organically. While the valley claims a cool, continental climate, and is heavily influenced by the cold, moist winds of the Pacific Ocean, its warm and dry summers allow for the steady, even ripening of Pinot noir.
The potential of Willamette Valley Pinot noir continues to attract the investment of serious growers and winemakers both locally and from abroad, as naturally the finished wines bring accolades from professionals and enthusiasts. With a range of styles from delicate dried cherry, raspberry and hibiscus to stronger notes of truffle, mocha, plum and spice, a fine Willamette Valley Pinot noir is a perfect expression of both character and grace.