Goodfellow Whistling Ridge Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022
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96 points Jeb Dunnuck: "From Ribbon Ridge, the jeweled ruby-colored 2022 Pinot Noir Whistling Ridge Vineyard is packed with ripe red cherry fruit, gravelly, iron-rich earth, anise, a hint of violets, and wild herbs. Medium-bodied, it offers ripe tannins, even acidity, and a note of salty mineral earth. Drink 2025-2040."
Marcus Goodfellow is one of the Pacific Northwest winemakers we most trust. We’ve long joked that he could make white Zin, even Pinotage, taste good! Fortunately his hurdles are nowhere near that high, since he begins with some of the best grapes in the state from Whistling Ridge, planted in 1990 and sharing a fence line with Beaux Freres.
Whistling Ridge Vineyard sits ridge-top on the western edge of the Ribbon Ridge. The vines catch the daily winds that blow in, slowing ripening, evaporating moisture, and thickening grape skins. Soils are eroded from uplifted marine sedimentary rock, 40 to 50 million years old, and dry out quickly in the growing season, forcing non-irrigated vines to grow roots deep in search of water. The wines are structured, elegant and complex.
Marcus Goodfellow’s winery is neither a newcomer nor a pioneer, and we don’t at all mean for that to be damning with faint praise, or anything like it. Marcus wears both hats with aplomb: he’s not a part of the “old guard” of Oregon winemakers but his wisdom and thoughtfulness are second to none. We love tasting with him and sending customers to the winery—he’s as gifted at explaining intricacies of wine as he is making it.
I once asked him about the vineyards he works with and without hesitation, he came up with this football-based analogy: “It's my Cam Chancellor, the quiet guy who puts the Boom in the Legion of Boom. Whistling Ridge Vineyard is directly above and beside two of Oregon's heavy hitter vineyards, sharing property lines with the Beaux Freres vineyard and Patricia Green Cellars Estate vineyard. It's one of Oregon's greatest white wine sites, and the Pinot Noir is both elegant and structurally powerful.”
Goodfellow Family Cellars produces wine only from sustainably farmed, non-irrigated, old vines; they seek to produce intense, site specific wines with an old world intensity and character. The winemaking is traditional: no cold soaks, no yeast inoculation, whole cluster ferments, long aging.
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