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.
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WHISTLING RIDGE VINEYARD
Whistling Ridge Blanc de Blancs - $60
This vineyard is undoubtedly among the best situated sites for the possibilities of sparkling wines in the Willamette Valley. Ripening with low sugars, consistent exposure to breezes, shallow soils, and low vigor, it's nearly ideal for sparkling wines. This is the second cuvee released from this site, on opening, its yeasty, almond, brioche notes offer a richer tone, but this gives way to yellow florals, seashells, salty lemon, crushed rocks, and grapefruit zest. As the wine open with time, the mineral backbone comes through. This is very enjoyable now and will definitely gain with a few years in the cellar. 1g/L dosage, 80 cases produced and disgorged March 2025.
2023 "Richard's Cuvée", Whistling Ridge Chardonnay - $75
The 2023 Richard's is a study in weightless power. Sea spray, wet stones, marzipan, lilies, pear, and seashells. Almond, iodine, salty lemon, lime zest. Aromatically entrancing, tranquil but layered, contrasting cooling flavors with the bright savoriness of citrus zest. In the mouth, it's textural and supple, but the tranquility gives way to a Meyer lemon and kumquat finish.
2023 Whistling Ridge Pinot Noir - $50
Beautiful red fruits; alpine strawberry and cherry, tree bark, loamy earth, potpourri, old growth forest, and purple flowers. A wonderful balance of savory and sweet. Pure red fruits, yet so alluring for its ginger and clove spice and the smell of the forest. Crystalline, shines a spotlight on every non-fruit aspect of the wine. This is lighter bodied than the 2022 was, elegant, with fine tannins and the juiciness of the 2023 vintage.
2023 Long Acre, Whistling Ridge Pinot Noir - $60
The Long Acre rolls off the ridgeline to the southeast, catching the morning sun. Always the slowest developing of the blocks at Whistling Ridge, Long Acre produces some of the prettiest wines from the vineyard. Pure red fruits, red cherry, strawberry, and plum, new crop apple skin, damp forest and wet moss. Bright florals and more juicy bright red fruits and mineral. With a day being open adding depth, cedar and woodsy notes. The palate is expansive but weightless, and shows the classiness of the vintage in the refined tannins and the subtle interplay between structure and acidity. The structure in this wine is very fine, but there's no question the wine is tightly coiled at this time.
2023 Heritage No.23, Whistling Ridge Pinot Noir - $75
Beautiful and aromatically expressive in the nose, with room to continue developing. Deep red and blue fruits, roses, peonies, cardamom, dark earth, a hint of coffee and a wonderful savory edge. Silky and currently more delicate on opening in the palate, with lovely light red and blue fruits, strawberry, currant, and cranberry, a hint of underbrush and earth with lovely acidity. It opens over several hours and into the next day. Intensely fragrant, with deeper red fruits and amaro, dried orange peel, thyme, more loamy earth, mineral, strawberries, raspberry and raspberry leaf, lilac, fennel pastilles, holiday spices and more yellow roses. It's so aromatically expressive for so young a wine. I must remind everyone that at very high levels of whole cluster the fruit is tied up by the stems, the amount of body this will gain in the coming years will give it the depth in the palate to match the aromatics.
TEMPERANCE HILL VINEYARD
2023 Temperance Hill Vineyard Chardonnay $55
Expressive with flint, youthfully bright with lemon oil, iodine, bay, thyme, savory, tarragon and kaffir lime leaf, cool lime water, and wet stones. Texturally full, precise, clean, intense. This block at Temperance Hill gets the full intensity of the wind funneling through the Van Duzer Corridor and cooling the valley. Compact with flinty chalk, yet supple and mouth filling, lime flowers, great fresh acidity and a long stony finish.
2022 Temperance Hill Pinot Noir $50
Cedar and tobacco, mulberry, black raspberry, fresh ground coffee, graphite, flint and stone. The black and red fruits are there, but with so much mineral intertwined and flowing through. More forward aromatically than our wines sometimes are at this age, it's elegant, medium bodied, with finesse in the mid-palate and then shifts into a sturdier finish with fine tannins that show good depth with modest astringency.
2023 Pumphouse Block Pinot Noir $60
Expressive, transparent, thyme and red fruits over a woodsy core of cedar forest and moss covered stones. Wild plums and tangy red fruits, kitchen herb, lily of the valley and white flowers. Refined, cardamom, fenugreek, clove, fine, firm tannin and more juicy acids. The Pumphouse Block is on the far side of Temperance Hill, a steep east facing slope that catches the morning sun and is the first of the older vines at Temperance to bud out every spring, producing an elegant, typically more red fruited and mineral expression of Temperance Hill.
2023 West Field Pinot Noir $60
Green tea, forest floor and cedar. Woodsmoke, dark earth, violets, purple and deep red fruits and a hint of lightly roasted coffee bean. Fine tannins, bright and juicy acids, supple nose, alluring. The elegance of the vintage is on point here, nothing is out of place. The West Field in Temperance Hill is a unique terroir. Steep and facing West into the late afternoon sun and the coastal winds coming through the Van Duzer Corridor, the block was first planted in 1983 on the old single high-wire trellis (now with both original, own-rooted vines, and interplanted young vines replacing those lost to phylloxera.)
2022 Heritage No.20, Temperance Hill Pinot Noir $75
Elegant, fragrant with dark red/black fruits, and floral notes. Blackberry, lavender, mint, fennel pollen, violets, pipe tobacco, orange peel and baking spices. Red fruited and juicy in the palate, with wild herbs, currents, and citrus. As it opens, black cherry, rich red fruit, and cedar wood. Smooth and rich but with grace. Comprised of one puncheon each from the West Field and Pumphouse Blocks. From Eric Guido's recent Oregon Report in Vinous: "Rosy florals give way to crushed blackberries and sweet lavender as the 2022 Pinot Noir Heritage No. 20 Temperance Hill slowly evolves in the glass. This sweeps across the palate with herbal-tinged wild berry fruits, offset by a saturation of sour citrus as a cascade of inner florals amasses toward the close. The 2022 finishes structured and long, geared for the cellar, with crisp mineral tones that resonate. This is fantastic, yet patience will be required. 95 points."
TSAI VINEYARD
2022 Tsai Vineyard Blanc de Noirs - sold out
Electric, vibrant, and sparkly (both having bubbles and in personality). The nose is sea air, pink florals and yellow roses, sweet tarts, apricot blossoms, and ruby red grapefruit. The palate is Rainier cherry skin and raspberry, so vibrant and fresh, and then a wonderful electric finish; must love acid, the balance here is very definitely sweet/tart/dry. So delicious. This wine was originally supposed to be a component of the Willamette Valley Extra-Brut, but from the earliest days in barrel it had an extraordinary energy and vibrancy. 12.1% ABV, 1gram/liter dosage.
2022 Tsai Vineyard Chardonnay $50
Saline with orchard fruits, Mirabelle, green tea, sea spray, grain, fennel pollen, yellow peach, green Anjou pear, pear blossoms, and vanilla bean aromatics, finishing with lemon/lime citrus and pith. Tranquil entry, with lovely texture, even at 12.1%. The wine still wants a bit of time to integrate, but has great energy now, mineral, hazelnut, and Meyer lemon as the wine opens up. 2022 reminds one very much of old school white Burgundy, specifically in the interplay between the supple texture and fruit and the savory edginess of the acidity.
DURANT VINEYARD
Durant Vineyard Blanc de Blancs - $60
The Chardonnay at Durant grown at the foot of the hill has always provided us with extremely good raw materials for still Chardonnay in the Goodfellow style. It lends itself to tranquility and texture, the cooling flavors of the Dundee Hills and takes on lees inflection with grace. The sparkling wine is no different, showcasing pastry dough and grain notes, lemon curd, toasted hazelnut, apple pie and grilled bread with hints of earth and golden tones to the fruit. Bright in the finish there is a small amount of dosage here, and it gives the slightest build to the fruit and softens the edges of the acidity.
2023 Durant Vineyard Chardonnay - $55
White and yellow flowers, yuzu, tangerine, and melon, almond flowers, pears, lime zest on the nose. There is something in the Durant Chardonnay that reminds me of mossy rocks alongside a creek in the woods. More lemon and mandarin in the palate, river rocks and more lemon zest. Classic Durant in the key of Chablis. Light bodied, lean and focused, fantastic laser like drive. Perfect with shellfish of all kinds.
2023 Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir - $50
The 2023 Durant has an immediate appeal to it, and also obvious depth. Savory notes and tannins from the 100% whole cluster ferments create a wonderful base for the pretty fruits and florals of the vineyard. Together they create a presence of weight and depth not reliant on extraction or ripeness. Pressed flowers, boysenberry, strawberry, blue-purple florals, and a faint hint of pixie dust. Alpine strawberries in the mouth, pomegranate, over a wonderful texture and a long, juicy, finish.
2023 Raven Block Pinot Noir - $60
So expressive, black cherry and blue fruit jump out in the mouth, lots of underbrush, black earth, and a definite backbone of kitchen herb (thyme specifically.) Lively acidity, a cooler tone than the single vineyard: chrysanthemums, almond flowers and alpine strawberries. The Raven Block is a 1993 planting at Durant, down at the foot of the hill next to our Chardonnay. Its sister block, Heron, we made wine from for years for the Durant family, before they built their own winery. Somewhat restrained when first in barrel, the wine gained depth as it aged, and we are excited for the opportunity to work with the Pinot noir from this part of the vineyard again.
2023 Heritage No.22, Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir - $75
Our block at Durant sits mid-slope facing the morning sun in the east. It's sheltered from the hot part of the day and gentle breezes come through to cool things down in the afternoon. The deeper volcanic soils hold moisture well and these vines are cooled by water evaporating up out of the ground during the dry Oregon summers. Planted in 1998, the vines are fully mature and site driven. This is our, lucky, 13th vintage with these vines and 2023 suited them very well. Modest sugars, bright acidity, whole cluster fermentation, and succulent fruit flavors combine to draw out a lovely and vibrant expression of the vineyard. Boysenberries, black caps, kitchen herbs, dark loamy earth, a hint of pie spice, and peonies. The palate shifts a shade darker with blackberry, boysenberry, dark earth, exotic spices, and a fine line of edgy tannins that resolve quickly into the bright acidity. Very fine and perfect with braised pork, carrots, potatoes, and herbs de Provence.
