Patricia Green Patty Green Commemorative 2017 (750ML)

94 VM / 94 WE

Brilliant magenta. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes red and blue fruit preserves, cherry cola, incense, baking spices and mocha, plus a smoky mineral topnote. Sappy, appealingly sweet and lively in the mouth, offering concentrated black raspberry, cherry, spicecake, vanilla and rose pastille flavors that stretch out with aeration. Shows surprising vivacity for its depth of fruit. The cherry and floral notes return on a strikingly long, spice-accented finish framed by velvety, well-knit tannins. - Josh Raynolds, Vinous Media

In honor of the late founder's last vintage, her partners tagged 150 barrels that they felt she would have particularly liked. The final blend was made from 25 of those barrels, one for each vintage Patty had made during her career. Ripe berry and cherry fruit has a creamy/crunchy mouthfeel, backed with appealing minerality. The simple, yet touching label is a photograph from the 2016 harvest—Patty's boots, shovel and beer. - Wine Enthusiast