Never Say Never!

We remember what Patricia Green Cellars said about their Dollar Bills Only Pinot: “We’ll never make that again!”

We last enjoyed this wine as we were emerging from the pandemic in 2021. The 2020 vintage was crafted from grapes sourced from Freedom Hill Vineyard, located at a higher elevation than the smoke from the wildfires that year. However, it was still declassified, as the overall quality of the 2020 vintage was deemed a loss. So this was to be a one-time deal!

“In 2020, we turned proverbial lemons into lemonade and revived our long-dormant Dollar Bills Only Pinot Noir label to mark the moment. Requests to run that back have been plentiful and, until now, politely ignored.

Oregon’s fourth consecutive abundant and excellent vintage has given us the opportunity to do this properly. We took on additional fruit from a couple of excellent sites in highly regarded AVAs to produce a genuinely strong expression of this bottling. We have committed to the vineyard owners that the fruit sources will remain undisclosed, but at this price point, that detail hardly matters.

All of the usual reasons sub-$25 Pinot Noir tends to be thin, tinny, and uninspiring are completely absent here. Well-grown fruit, single-vineyard-quality sites, and top-tier winemaking have always been our milieu. While the 2020 was a reclamation project, this is an intentional wine made from terrific fruit in an excellent vintage.” – Jim Anderson, Owner & Winemaker – Patricia Green Cellars