2013 Pinot Noir Estate Vineyard

Co-owner/winemaker Jim Anderson told me that in 2013 the timing of the harvest was everything. "It really started to rain like hell in the middle of September, as everybody knows, and the fruit that was already in was safe," he explained, "but a lot of it was from younger vines and some people had also picked underripe grapes." He went on: "If one was willing to wait out the storms, keeping fingers crossed that conditions didn't set up for rot and doing plenty of work dropping fruit, there was a chance to get truly ripe, clean grapes from older, later-maturing vines." Here at Patricia Green, Anderson told me, they picked until October 10th, "and that extra time allowed things in the vineyard to even out and the grapes got back on track to maturity."