Patton Valley's 2006 Pinot noir is a fleshy, structured 2006 Pinot loaded with black berry and dark currant fruit, accented with heady aromas of cherry cream. Plums build as the finish powers on, picking up sandalwood, barrel spice, thyme and vanilla bean. This should integrate nicely over the next several months and will please fans of muscular Pinot noir.
Detailed Info, Previous Vintage Notes, Reviews:
Tasting Notes 2005 Vintage
Wine Spectator 91 points: Firm and focused. Not a big wine, but lean and flavorful with blackberry, dark plum and black pepper notes, lingering on the mildly chewy finish. Everything lingers enticingly. Best from 2009 through 2015. 1,400 cases made. -H.S.
This Pinot just keeps getting better! Scents of raspberry and blueberry are complemented by earth, cream, and smoke elements. Then, a big burst of full, juicy boysenberry and blueberry develops into a hefty base note that pulls you through to the long finish reiterating fruit and earth, adding spice and showing the structure that will allow for 4--6 years of development in the cellar. Best now with food, like pan-fried pork cutlets and wild mushrooms.-Marcus
Full of juicy sweet cherry and berry fruit, the 2005 Patton Valley meets and exceeds the lovely flavors of the excellent 2004 vintage. This wine has that little something that raises it above the crowd...that ephemeral ingredient the best winemakers find and cultivate as their individual expression of the grape. Monte does it again. -Jean
Tasting Notes 2004 Vintage
A most beautiful Pinot noir with a great deal of interesting and pleasing complexity. Scents are of easily acessible red cherry and raspberry fruit, with soft pie spice notes. Flavores are of sweet blackberry and raspberry, big sweet pie spices including cinnamon, cardamon, clove, and allspice. The finish adds hints of green and white peppercorns along with big red fruit, lots of barrel spice, and vanilla.
Wine blog Vinography says: "Light garnet in the glass, this wine has an ethereal nose of pomegranate and mixed herbs. In the mouth it has lovely balance with great acidity that lifts flavors of cranberry, spices, and mixed herbs up over the palate to go singing down the back of the throat in silky slithers. The wine possesses lovely texture and weight in the mouth and hangs on for a nice finish. Score: 9/9.5."
Tasting Notes 2003 VintageWine Spectator rating 91 points for 2003 vintage! WS says: "Ripe, open-textured and distinctive for its complex bkack cherry, sassafras, sweet oak and dusky spice aromas and flavors, lingering impressively against superfine tannins. Drink now through 2013. 1270 cases made." H.S.
Monte worked at Beaux Freres and there are definite hints of Beaux Freres' style here.
Tasting Notes 2002 Vintage
From the winery: "Another Silky Treasure Patton Valley Pinot's are made to show the supple character and silky texture of the variety. The challenge in 2003 was to avoid the over extraction and tannin imbalances seen in some Oregon wines from this very hot and dry growing season. Thankfully, our Laurelwood soils helped us beat the heat and allowed us to make an elegant and luscious wine, our most complex Patton Valley to date.On the nose, black cherries, raspberries, and dark chocolate with a touch of ?Ç£Patton Valley?Ç¥ spice. In the mouth, the soft feel of rose petals, dark fruits and truffles. There is a persistent and well framed texture of ripe fruit and restrained oak. More forward fruitiness than the 2001 with more structure than the very opulent 2002. The finish echoes the lush, red fruits with impressive length and a soft reminder of its sense of place. Drinking surprising well now, this wine has the guts to develop into 2010 and beyond."
