2013 Patricia Green Pinot Noir Coury Clone Freedom Hill Vineyard

The 2013 Pinot Noir Freedom Hill Vineyard Coury Clone comes from part of the vineyard planted in 2000; it includes one-third whole cluster and was raised in 50% new oak. It has a well-defined and expressive bouquet, a mixture of red and black fruit with nicely assimilated oak lending it lift. The palate is medium-bodied and more succulent than the Dijon 115 clone, fleshier in texture, though perhaps without quite the same tension on the finish. It perhaps just lacks a little complexity, yet there is decent length, if not the intellectual capacity of some of Patricia Green's other recent releases.