2023 was my 30th vintage making wine in Oregon. I had always wondered what a vintage would be like if everything basically just went right. Well, that’s the 2023 vintage. Superlative weather throughout the spring and summer leading into another earlier (by historical standards) harvest where the weather was excellently agreeable. This is both a bountiful and beautiful vintage. Across the board every vineyard performed to their highest level. Every bottling, and we did 34 bottlings of Pinot Noir, is at an apex. In short, at least in the here and now, I think this has a very good case for being considered the greatest vintage in Oregon’s history. At the very least, this is the best Patricia Green Cellars of our 24 vintages - Jim Anderson, Owner & Winemaker
2023 Vintage Story: 2023 was a year of a very dry summer. Endless sunny days. Maybe one of the easier years to take care of vineyards in recent times as it wasn’t as humid as 2019 and 2022, not as hot as 2021 and 2018 and, thank goodness, there were no wildfires like 2020. This translated into perfectly manicured vineyards with excellent yields of gorgeously and perfectly ripe fruit. Winemaking conditions were nearly ideal and the winery itself oft times smelled more like a bakery making fruit muffins than it did a place fermenting grapes into wine! This was simply a vintage that seemed to exist in the romantic nature of vintages rather than in the “reality of farming” nature of actual vintages. The wines were a pleasure to work with from beginning to end and the results are wines that reflect to a tee where they came from. This is, seemingly, a rare vintage so, act accordingly.
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