
Location: Ribbon Ridge, OR
Alcohol: 13.5%
The Estate Vineyard, Old Vine bottling is the flagship wine of Patricia Green Cellars. It is both delicious and unique but also shows a particular aspect of this vineyard and the Ribbon Ridge AVA as a whole. A brighter, redder style of Pinot. Lengthy with a wonderful counterbalance of austerity to its rich texture. There is a sense of minerality intermingling with the long chain tannins that draw the wine out and provide exceptional length.
Fermentations were managed exclusively by pigeages. Cold soaks were generally 4-5 days across all the fermenters. Full fermentation from beginning to pressing ranged from 17-20 days. A 48-hour settling of pressed wine occurred prior to being racked to barrel. All wines were on full lees until assemblage for bottling. Bottled without fining or filtration. This 45-barrel bottling consists of only 3 new barrels (7%), a combination of once, twice and thrice-filled barrels (6%) and a large selection of neutral barrels (77%). Wine was in barrel until late July and bottled in late August allowing for around 10 months in barrel.
Patricia Green Cellars has done the management of this property internally since they purchased it in 2000 with the exception of 2014 and 2015 when Sterling Fox’s management service did the work. Also, at that time, the vineyard was switched entirely to organic farming practices and remains so to this day. The vineyard has always been dry farmed. This bottling is made up nearly entirely from vines with between 24-38 years in vine age, with a large amount being right at 32 years.