Patricia Green Corrine Vineyard Anklebreaker Block Pinot Noir 2021
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The Land
Corrine Vineyard sits just east of Ribbon Ridge in the Chehalem Mountains, and it is a marine sedimentary site: Willakenzie series soil, thin, sandy, low in clay, over a sandstone subsoil that drains nearly instantly. The Anklebreaker Block breaks that pattern. An ancient basalt landslide dumped brick-sized rocks across one section of the hillside, and walking those rows is hard enough that the block is named for the injury it threatens. It sits at 325 feet, facing south and west, planted to Pommard in 2007 on a 25-acre hillside that Paul Hart and Jan Jacobsen, founders of Rex Hill, put in as Jacob-Hart Vineyard in 1987. Rock, drainage and no irrigation make small berries and hard tannin.
The Wine
All Pommard-clone Pinot Noir, picked September 14. Fruit went into five fermenters, three at 50% whole cluster and two fully destemmed, after a three to four day cold soak, and ferments ran 16 to 17 days worked entirely by pigeage, no pumpovers. The wine filled twelve barrels, three new, nine neutral, on full lees until bottling. The new oak and lees contact build texture without burying the fruit. pH 3.55, TA 5.8. 297 cases. Lavender, wild black raspberry preserve, dried herbs and dry rocky earth, then a dark, savory middle and chewy tannin built like the quarry these vines grow in. A heat dome on June 26 to 28 pushed Salem to 117 degrees, but the berries were still small, hard and green, and damage was minimal. Rain at bloom cut set to roughly 75% of normal, and a 92-day drought broke in early September into a long, cool harvest.
The People
Patty Green and Jim Anderson started Patricia Green Cellars in 2000, leaving a winery they had built since 1993 to buy a 52-acre property in what is now the Ribbon Ridge AVA. The premise: Oregon already had great vineyards and lacked only farming willing to stay out of the way. That became the largest collection of historic Oregon vineyard sites under one roof, and more individual Pinot Noir bottlings than any winery in America: thirty-six in 2021 alone. Green died in 2017, and Anderson has kept the terms intact with Matthew Russell in the cellar. No site is irrigated, the farming is organic, and every employee gets fully paid health care.
Food Pairing
Tannin this gritty wants meat with char on it. Grill a butterflied leg of lamb over hardwood, rubbed with rosemary and black pepper, and let the smoke meet the savory, rocky side of the wine. Duck breast seared skin-side down with a blackberry pan sauce picks up the black raspberry fruit and gives the tannin fat to work against. Mushrooms roasted hard with thyme and garlic over soft polenta lean into the earth. Decant it an hour ahead; it keeps opening. It is the bottle for the night you fire up the grill in October and nobody wants to go back inside.
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The Willamette Valley, nestled in Oregon, is a region renowned for its cool-climate wines, particularly its Pinot Noir. While Pinot Noir is its most celebrated variety, the valley is also home to other cool climate varieties like Chardonnay and Riesling. The region's unique terroir, characterized by rolling hills, volcanic and sedimentary soils, and a maritime climate influence, contributes to the elegance and complexity of its wines. The wines of the Willamette Valley offer a delicate balance between fruit, acidity, and earthiness. Its increasingly growing reputation places it among the world’s top regions for Pinot Noir.
Oregon - Willamette Valley
Pinot Noir is a thin-skinned, notoriously difficult-to-grow, low-yielding grape that finds its ancestral home in Burgundy, France, where it produces some of the world's most elegant and nuanced wines. While Burgundy remains its spiritual heartland, Pinot Noir has since traveled the globe, finding success in other cooler climates, notably in California, Oregon, New Zealand, and Germany. This grape is a challenge for any grower, as it requires specific conditions to show its best, and yet the wines it produces are capable of such a captivating and singular character.
