What you want to know:
-Will I like the wines? Yes, if you like full-bodied, dark and intense Pinot noirs. Patty is known for her earthy, hearty reds - with big cherry and blackberry flavors.
-What she makes - Around 25 different wines each year, along with an additional 20-50 custom bottlings for some of the best restaurants in the country.
-Best known for - Patty's generous and bubbly personality, her down to earth warehouse/winery and her famous wines.
-Best Wines - While all of her wines have loyal followers (most of her wine is sold the year before it is bottled) her Pinot noirs are best known. Estate, Estate Reserve, Balcombe, and Notorious Pinot noirs are the most popular each year, and her one white wine, a hard to get Sauvignon Blanc, sells out the weekend it is released. There's a lot to go through, so call or email us if we can help you choose.
Patricia Green's winery is located along Ribbon Ridge Road, in the heart of a long, narrow ridge famous as the home of some of the best wineries in Oregon. Her neighbors include Shea Vineyard, Brick House, Penner Ash, Bergstrom, Adelsheim, and Beaux Freres. Patty's winery is next to Beaux
Freres and her estate vineyard is contiguous with theirs.
Among her neighbors, Patty's style is unique. She's a bit hippie, a bit
hip, with a dash of down-to-earth, and a smidge of world wise. She and business partner Jim Anderson have grown a poorly managed winery and vineyard purchased in 1999 into
an institution among Oregon wine collectors.
Patty's wines have a definite style, and
some people don't like it. Her wines tend to be rich, dark in color (several
of the most well known Oregon winemakers have asked her advice on getting
color in their Pinots) with a broad palate of fruit, berry, spice, earthy,
and even barnyard flavors, all of which are considered de rigueur in
France, but are perhaps a bit more authentic than some American wine
buyers like. If you like only the smoothest, most fruity Pinots (like
many from California) her wines might be a bit more than you want. But
if you like a range of flavors from licorice to loganberry to Chinese
Five Spice, to black cherry and the scent of fresh turned earth, you'll
find her wines a most rewarding experience.
Patricia Green Cellars makes small amounts of wine, much of which is sold
as futures.
read More About Patricia Green and her Winery
About Patricia Green Cellars-
About Patricia Green Cellars' Estate Vineyard
- About Balcombe Vineyard
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2009 Tanzer - 92 points - Vivid medium red. High-pitched red berry and floral aromas are complemented by deeper notes of anise and black cardamom. Sappy and precise, with deep raspberry and bitter cherry flavors and a sexy rose ...
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Incredible aromatics of rose petals, freshly cooked lamb, and earth toned red-spices. The texture is always graceful, at once being mouth-filling but never in an aggressive way. The finish is long, subtle and complete. This is a terrific rendit...
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This is the small, 20-year old vineyard located directly behind both us and Beaux Freres. It is owned by Dick and Patricia Alvord. We started buying a small portion of the Pinot Noir in 2003 and it turned out to be one of the most interesting an...
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2008 Vintage Tasting Notes
2008 Wine Advocate - 92 points - The 2008 Pinot Noir Estate is more deeply colored with a seductive perfume of smoke, rose petal, incense, terroir notes, black cherry and ...
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Big, rich, easy drinking, make this your everyday "House Wine" like dozens of restaurants do!
Formerly produced somewhat erratically (some years they didn't bottle any of it), Patricia Green Cellars has decided to make a decent quantity of t...
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Previous Vintage Tasting Notes
2009 Vintage Tasting Notes
Tanzer 93 points!
Deep, bright red. Explosively perfumed nose offers ...
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Previous Vintage Tasting Notes
2009 Vintage Tasting Notes
Tanzer 92 points!
Vivid medium red. High-pitched red berry and floral ...
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Previous Vintage Tasting Notes
2009 Vintage Tasting Notes
The winery says "Few Pinot Noirs get darker than this purple/black monster. The wine is utterly opaque. However, while the flavors run toward...
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In 2009 we set out to find some new vineyard sites to replace the fruit we were losing from the older vines of Croft vineyard due to phyloxera (there is not 2010 Croft Vineyard bottling). We happened to land in this terrific vineyard just down t...
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Previous Vintage Tasting Notes
2008 Vintage Tasting Notes
Our favorite of the 2008 PGC wines, it's also Jim Anderson's favorite. (Patty's business partner and co-winemaker.)
A heady perfume of ...
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This site is located in the bowl off Worden Hill Rd., where it lies adjacent to vineyards such as Winderlea, Maresh and Arcus. Planted in 1978, Ana Vineyard was purchased a few years ago by vineyard manager extraordinaire Andy Humphrey. This ...
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This site is now taking on new levels of seriousness as it starts to enter into maturity. The vines are now 20 years of age and the depth, power and balance of this particular bottling become further honed each vintage. Balcombe Vineyard is loca...
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We have been in the fortunate position over the past couple of vintages to pick up some terrific sections of older vineyards and this one just adds to that fairly impressive list. Wahle vineyard is in the hills west and a bit south of Yamhill. T...
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The one barrel Marine Sedimentary bottling takes wine from selected blocks and barrels from across our entire Estate Vineyard as well as from a couple of parts of Whistling Ridge Vineyard and the intent is to show off the minerally, dense, darkl...
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Recommended Best Buy
One of the best value Oregon Pinots noirs for 15 years, fresh and mouthwatering with sweet black berry/cherry fruit flavors and Patty's trademark full-bodied style. There's a bit of very appealing fi...
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This wine is sublime, with mouthwatering lime, white peach, grapefruit, and quince, on a creamy delivery. Patty nicely fuses the styles of Sancerre, New Zealand, and California into a uniquely Oregonian Sauv blanc. Highly recommended.
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When we began with this wine in 2003 for one reason or another it has always been the most idiosyncratic wine in the cellar each vintage. The evolution of this vineyard and the wine that comes off of it has been terrific to witness first hand....
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The winery says "Few Pinot Noirs get darker than this purple/black monster. The wine is utterly opaque. However, while the flavors run toward the darker side of Pinot Noir there is a deftness and elegance to this wine that belies the pigmentatio...
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Previous Vintage Tasting Notes
2008 Vintage Tasting Notes
Our favorite of the 2008 PGC wines, it's also Jim Anderson's favorite. (Patty's business partner and co-winemaker.)
A heady perfume of v...
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Tanzer 92 points!
Bright ruby-red. An exotically perfumed and expressive bouquet displays raspberry, cherry compote, sassafras and five spice powder, with a subtle floral ...
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