Wines & Purchasing
Wines & Purchasing
Goodfellow Family Cellars produces elegant and structured wines of site in Oregon's Willamette Valley. All wines are produced from sustainably farmed, non- irrigated vineyards, with individual and hands on attention to process.
For current availability & purchasing please contact us at info@goodfellowfamilycellars.com
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WHISTLING RIDGE VINEYARD
2021 "Richard's Cuvée", Whistling Ridge Chardonnay sold out
The magic of the 2021 vintage really can't be overstated, this is a fabulous, tightly coiled, laser focused expression of the vineyard. Fresh hay, meyer lemon, lime leaf, almond, flowers and seashell. Expansive in the nose with an almost tranquil nature that reverses course in the palate to vibrant citrus, stony notes, intense and compact now, finely chiseled with noticeable youthful astringency and bright acidity.
2021 Whistling Ridge Pinot Noir $50
Notes of red currants, cherry, and cranberry, along with black fruits and amaro, dried rose petals, cinnamon, pie spices, and a hint of loamy earth. The palate is a similar story, with the trademark dry red fruits laid over an undercurrent of black fruit, floral tones, amaro-esque tannins, and bright acids. The balance of fruit and tannin is vinous, dry, and savory.
2021 House Block, Whistling Ridge Pinot Noir $60
Red cherry with a savory line of herb, mint, tobacco and guava. With time open: strawberry and current, still with a bright and long finish, dark cherries, dry cacao, and the most savory tannins that we have seen from these specific vines. The House Block is one of the few mono-clonal plantings at Whistling Ridge; a west-tilted bowl with some of the first Pommard clone Pinot Noir vines planted at Whistling Ridge, along with the replants with cuttings from the original vines as phylloxera has taken out sections of the block.
2021 Heritage No.19, Whistling Ridge Pinot Noir -sold out
From the Beloved Acre at Whistling Ridge, the density of the vintage shows through in the color of the wine, a dramatic deep garnet red. The nose opens with dark cherry and loamy earth surrounded by sweet floral notes and baking spices. The palate is more coiled with a clean direct entry, sweet red berries, excellent weightless texture, bright acidity and firm tannins. After 48 hours open, the nose has evolved into a remarkably compelling array of nuances, the wine is very foresty, with notes of conifer, underbrush, and humus. Fruit is darkly red and savory but folds seamlessly into the non-fruit components. At this much air nothing is fading and the wine is a joy to inhale, and shows the remarkable potential of the 2021 vintage.
TEMPERANCE HILL VINEYARD
2021 “Psycho Killer” Temperance Hill Chardonnay -sold out
Mandarin curd, hazelnut, iris and white lilac. Shell and stone. Textural, intense, densely rich, yet with great finishing acidity and extraordinary persistence. This is the very best of an already exceptional year for Chardonnay from Temperance Hill Vineyard. Jancis Robinson: "The extra depth of this wine suggests we are moving towards a premier cru burgundy. Dense and rich."
2021 Temperance Hill Vineyard Chardonnay $60
Lemon oil and zest with mandarin, stone fruits, almond paste, white flowers and kaffir lime leaf. This wine marries the power and savory nature of Temperance Hill with the fruit intensity and cut of 2021. From Jancis Robinson’s visit ahead of bottling: "Really edgy, precise fruit. Crystalline. Exciting! Lightly smoky. Long."
2021 Temperance Hill Pinot Noir $50
Classic, dense Temperance Hill fruit, powerful, tannins are distinct and refined. Dark berries, cedar, velvety dense nose with loads of graceful spices. Dense fruit in the palate, with Temperance Hill's unique blend of power and grace. This is quite seamless for such a young wine from THV, but there is an abundance of dry extract folded into the velvety texture.
2021 Pumphouse Block Pinot Noir $60
From the steep east-facing slope on the far side of Temperance Hill. One to wait for, but absolutely worth it in the end. On first opening very tight, with tart red fruits and tannic structure on the palate that seems to overwhelm everything that came before. Then with a day or two open the wine blossoms: phenomenal texture and richness of weight, aromatics of lilac, five spice, cedar, cinnamon and rose petals, more cedar and cigar box, richer red fruits, wet stones.... hold for now, but the payout will be excellent.
2021 Heritage No.18, Temperance Hill Pinot Noir $75
Cedar, kirsch, dark fruits, lily of the valley, moss and woodsy green tea, mandarin, dense but nuanced, from the best barrels produced out of the steep, wind-swept West Field of Temperance Hill. Clean pure entry with sweet dark fruit and velvety texture as it opens, and elegant, but with fine, firm tannins to finish.
TSAI VINEYARD
2021 Tsai Vineyard Chardonnay $50
The 2021 Tsai Vineyard Chardonnay is yellow fruited, floral, with pear, apple skin, cream, pie crust and a minty hint of bright herb. Medium full on the palate but fresh, with lovely acidity through the back end and finish. The vineyard is located in hills behind Gaston, in the north-west corner of the Yamhill- Carlton AVA, with deeper, Jory, volcanic soils and a south facing aspect. Chardonnay was planted here in 2001 and the vines have the maturity to produce fruit with layering and depth.
DURANT VINEYARD
2021 Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir - sold out
Densely fruited, boysenberry, purple flowers, gravelly, intense, a shade darker than usual. There is a wonderful sense of intrigue in the 2021 Durant, so much going on just beneath the surface. It has the aromatics of whole cluster Dundee hills wines but in a stonier, sinewy way. Violet in tone, luxurious texture, energy, a mineral crunchiness that provides a framework for the mid-weight fruit, and fine finishing tannins.
2021 Heritage No.17, Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir $75
Deeper red hues and spice on the nose, black cherry, boysenberry, violets, cardamom, balsam, enveloping and textural with juicy, lovely acidity, firm tannins on opening that integrate over several days as the weight and texture of the wine fills in. Aromatically, the high point seems to really arrive after being open for about 48 hours, and the seamless interplay between fruit, baking spice, loamy earth, and hints of kitchen herbs is dramatic and superlative. In the zone the nose here is absolutely intoxicating.
FIR CREST VINEYARD PINOT NOIR
2021 Block Eleven, Fir Crest Vineyard Pinot Noir $60
My first thought was black strawberry, but those don't exist. Think of black cherry or black raspberry and then apply the idea to strawberries and it will give you an idea of the Block Eleven. Layer on spiced plums, dark forest berries, and kitchen spices. The palate is dark and structured. Pretty red and black fruit, slightly velvety turning to structural tannins and a bright, long finish.
