Goodfellow Durant Library Selections & 2024 Releases

bottles listed are limited in quantity, we will do our best to update availability through the offer period, but if you have a back up in mind please include it in your initial email order.

As always, to order please email marcus@goodfellowfamilycellars.com or call Megan at 503-347-6366.

DURANT LIBRARY OFFERINGS

2019 Durant Vineyard Chardonnay $90

2019 was a superlative vintage. It produced electric wines, with tremendous balance, and this wine is just in a fantastic spot. At 7 years old, this is still a youthful wine, just bursting with energy. It opens with smoke, stone, lemon/lime oils and skin, salty, with just a hint of cream under the layers of bright citrus. It is weighty and textural but with fantastic drive and energy, adding kumquat and a hint of pear to the Meyer lemon and lime flavors in the palate. This is still youthful, but for our palates, in a perfect place for enjoying now. We are lucky to have enough of this wine to offer it today.

(quantities are extremely limited, please limit to 2 bottles as part of your Durant Release order)

2014 Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir $80

Twelve years on, this is in a lovely spot from right at the get go. Deep red fruit, dried raspberries & dried strawberries, notes of iron, dry earth, and anise with fine tannins and refreshing acidity, but everything is seamless right now. This wine has taken it’s time in arriving at maturity, and the flavors approaching fully developed yet are still vibrant and refreshing. Perfect with duck or lamb, or wild mushhrooms. Ready to drink, but it will be interesting to see this wine again in another 4-5 years.

 (quantities are extremely limited, please limit to 2 bottles as part of your Durant Release order)

Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir mini-vertical $210

one bottle each:

2017 Heritage No. 9, Durant Vineyard

2018 Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir

2019 Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir

This is a lovely set of more limited wines from our library, showing a range of really outstanding vintages. All three wines are still incredibly youthful, and just coming into, or close to coming into an early phase for opening and enjoying. The 2019 was a cooler year in Oregon, and the delicate nature of the vintage is now making for an extraordinarily elegant Pinot Noir, the 2017 Heritage No.9 has blossomed over the past year into really an outstanding spot. It might be our favorite Durant Vineyard wine to have produced over the years. 2018 was an impressive and balanced vintage, and this wine will reward just a few more years of patience. Please limit to one 3pk set as part of your Durant Release order.

2024 DURANT SINGLE VINEYARD OFFERINGS

2024 Durant Vineyard Chardonnay $40 release price, $50 retail

Beautifully expressive, supple, glassy, aromatics of straw, yellow flowers, almonds, and seashells. There is a remarkable intensity and clarity of aromas that highlight the 2024 vintage wines in general. The nose evolves and changes with stones and river rock, green melon, hyacinth, iris, mint, lime zest, and salty sea spray. Lime water, lemon curd, intense and juicy, with honeyed aromatics and lime leaf. The palate is light-bodied but textural, glassy, then a love bracing finish of lemon and lime skin and oils. 11.2% abv and 115 cases produced. Drink now through 2038.

2024 Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir $40 release price, $50 retail

Super expressive nose, hints of coffee, orange peel, sanguine notes, clean earth, and a hint to fresh strawberry. Texturally weightless, yet packed with flavors of cranberry, red flowers, marionberry and exotic spice. Perfumed, lush,soft and velvety, the magic of 2024 is in weightless power and balance between tannins and acids through the finish. 13.7% and 115 cases produced. Drink now through 2040, with perhaps a pause from 2028-2031.

2024 Heritage No.26, Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir $60 release price, $75 retail

This is just bursting with red floral tones. Black cap raspberry, boysenberry, violets, and exotic spice, perfumed. Perhaps the most compelling nose for a Durant bottling in quite a few years, and very much has a Vosne-Romanee-like spice. Elegant and powerful. The palate is just weightless, fine and balanced. 13.7% and 55 cases produced. Drink now through 2045, with perhaps a pause between 2028-2031.