Patricia Green Lia’s Vineyard pinot noir/2021
Blend
Pinot Noir
Geographical Attributes
Lia’s Vineyard is located in the Chehalem Mountains AVA in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The elevation ranges from 380' to 560' and faces primarily due south. The soils are mostly Jory, a dark reddish brown silty clay loam, with a transition to marine sedimentary series around the 400' contour. This is fairly typical in the Chehalem Mountains AVA where elevations can range from around 100' to over 1,000' in elevation and soil types can transition within each vineyard. Patricia Green Cellars started sourcing fruit from Lia’s Vineyard in 2010. It took some moving around from block to block in 2011 to finally decide to produce a single vineyard bottling in 2012. Three blocks were intriguing in their own ways and allowed for the creation of a wine that was true to its place and completely unique in our cellar. These three sections were Pommard at the very top of the hill planted in 1973 in Jory soil, a section of Dijon 115 at the bottom of the site planted in Marine Sedimentary soil and a very small section of Mariafeld Clone (Clone 23). Mariafeld Clone is a rare and unusual clone of Pinot Noir that sits in the soil transition zone of Lia's Vineyard.
Vintner Notes
Lia’s Vineyard, to us, is about the unusual (in Oregon) combination of soil types due to the change in elevation that the vineyard has over a relatively small amount of overall acreage. That is what makes this vineyard fascinating and, in our cellar, totally unique. The Pommard at higher elevation in volcanic soil produces intense, sultry and concentrated Pinot Noir and the Dijon 115 leans to a much more structured and savory style since it comes from the marine soil at the bottom of the vineyard (this is still in the middle of the overall hillside). The Mariafeld is at an even lower spot on the hill than the Dijon 115 and it adds its own little thing to the whole situation.