Dunnuck 95 – his top vintage ever:
The 2023 Pinot Noir Freedom Hill Vineyard is a beautiful wine and the starting point for the range from Freedom Hill. It checks a lot of boxes with minerality, fruit, and just outstanding complexity and tension. Notes of cranberry, cherry, bright spices, orange zest, and dried earth are complemented by a chalky texture, refined tannins, and bright, mouthwatering acidity, culminating in a long finish. It’s one of the many outstanding values in the wide range of Patricia Green Cellars. Drink 2025-2035.
The winery says:
The 2023 Freedom Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir doesn’t miss a beat with the numerous Freedom Hill classic bottlings that have come before it. Freedom Hill is known for dark, elaborately pigmented wines with a wealth of fruit, generous mouthfeel and a generous dollop of tannins that gives the wine framework and dimension. This is our 11th bottling of the Freedom Hill classic (as we refer to it) bottling, dating back to our first vintage in 2012. Were we not to have the elaborate clonal bottlings this would be seen as one of the greatest Freedom Hill Vineyard bottlings we have ever done. The dark fruit has a sweeter tone to it, the structure is dense, as per usual, but the wine is flush with red and black fruit and a freshening level of acidity that contains the sheer mass of the wine that makes it both beautiful and profound.
As they point out, no other winery offers a Freedom Hill Pinot Noir of this caliber at anywhere near this fair a price.
