As you've likely already figured out, rather than producing large quantities of a few blended bottlings, Patricia Green Cellars crafts tiny quantities of many small-batch Pinots. For the 2017 vintage, Jim upped the number of individual Pinot Noirs from an already high 22 to a practically insane 27. 

While the diversity is great, the challenge is that when we find one we know our customers are going to love, there just aren't a whole lot of cases to go around!

Crafted from a parcel of Coury Clone Pinot Noir in the storied Hyland Vineyard, this is one of the new bottlings. A mere 218 cases were produced, and we are thrilled to get the nine cases we did. It is a baller wine. 

This is an incredibly impressive Pinot Noir with structure and flavor similar to a top 1er Cru Pommard. While the Freedom Hill - Wadensvil Clone is ready to drink now, this old-school Pinot Noir needs time. It was on Day 3 after opening that our sample of this powerfully structured wine began to fully strut its beautiful red fruits and silky mouth feel. You wouldn't drink that $150 bottle of 1er Cru Epenots right away, and you shouldn't drink this wine for another five years! Check out these notes from Jim, then quickly click the Big Yellow Button to claim a few bottles for your cellar...

"This is an amazing, old vineyard. How, back in 1972, someone decided to plant this insanely remote vineyard southwest of McMinnville is beyond me. Nonetheless, this nearly 50 year old vineyard is the definitive site in the McMinnville AVA and is one of the most renowned vineyards in the state of Oregon. It is farmed biodynamically and the attention to detail there is amazing, especially when you take into account its size (around 135 acres). We were offered a small section of the site planted to Coury Clone in 1989. Given our predilection for collecting the great sites of Oregon in our cellar, our desire to work with beautifully farmed old vine fruit and our obsession with Coury Clone this was a no-brainer. Our instincts proved correct. This was easily one of the top wines in the cellar from 2017, period. Having experience with the Freedom Hill Vineyard, Coury Clone definitely gave us insight into what the potential impact of the clone and site's terroir could be. Hyland is higher elevation and thus in volcanic (Jory) soil while Freedom Hill is lower and in marine (Bellpine) soil. The difference the soil has here across the clone is striking. Coury Clone possesses incredible aromatics and tea-like characteristics with strikingly red dominated fruit. The texture is magical, with a sensual blanket of flavors that coats the palate making for a discreet, sublime and incredibly complex wine. This a brilliant wine from an esoteric site that has made its way into the upper echelon of our bottlings in its first vintage."

- Jim Anderson, Patricia Green Cellars