Goodfellow Whistling Ridge Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022

96 points Jeb Dunnuck: "From Ribbon Ridge, the jeweled ruby-colored 2022 Pinot Noir Whistling Ridge Vineyard is packed with ripe red cherry fruit, gravelly, iron-rich earth, anise, a hint of violets, and wild herbs. Medium-bodied, it offers ripe tannins, even acidity, and a note of salty mineral earth. Drink 2025-2040." Marcus Goodfellow is one of the Pacific Northwest winemakers we most trust. We’ve long joked that he could make white Zin, even Pinotage, taste good! Fortunately his hurdles are nowhere near that high, since he begins with some of the best grapes in the state from Whistling Ridge, planted in 1990 and sharing a fence line with Beaux Freres.  Whistling Ridge Vineyard sits ridge-top on the western edge of the Ribbon Ridge. The vines catch the daily winds that blow in, slowing ripening, evaporating moisture, and thickening grape skins. Soils are eroded from uplifted marine sedimentary rock, 40 to 50 million years old, and dry out quickly in the growing season, forcing non-i