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 first offering shows the terroir of the site: textural and weightlessly dense. Aromatics are flinty in nature, seawater, oyster shells, stone, and more oceanic qualities. In the mouth, more stones, kaffir lime curd, mandarin peel, steel, and star fruit. Compact but powerful, it will be wonderful to see how this evolves over the next few years. Non-dosage, 120 cases produced and disgorged April 2024.
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.
2022 Whistling Ridge Pinot Noir $50
Classic Whistling Ridge. Generous aromatically, with notes of rose petals, velvet, potpourri, strawberry, red cherry, pie spice, leather, and orange peel. The palate is bright red fruits, alpine strawberry, black cherry, more leather, with juicy acidity, darkening a bit as it opens and gaining depth. While the tannins are there, they are extraordinarily fine in this vintage, and the wine and should have an excellent window for drinking early, as well as cellaring in good fashion.
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 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."
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.
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
2023 Tsai Vineyard Pinot Blanc $27
Refreshing, like fresh squeezed lemonade but add in bright aromas of pear and orchard fruit, along with a hint of pastry dough. The perfect combination of weightless, supple, and zingy. The palate is bright, light-bodied, and snappy. If Pinot Blanc were grown in Chablis this is what it would taste like.
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
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. 162 cases disgorged in April 2024, with 1g/L dosage.
2022 Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir - $50
Layered, elegant, with coffee and earth underlying boysenberry/black cherry fruit, violets, and yet loaded with finesse. The depth of the Dundee hills volcanic soils shows through, as does the vine age (25 years old now, we've worked with these vines since they were 12!) These vines sit halfway up the slope and face east into the morning sun. As they've aged they are slowly losing vigor and naturally finding a balance for the canopy, the layering gains depth while alcohols have become more modest. In five 500L puncheons, the quality was so consistent that we opted to forego a Heritage bottling from Durant this year and focus on maximizing quality in the vineyard designate.
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.
