95 Jeb Dunnuck
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.
 
92 Points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Fermented with around 14% whole clusters and matured in used oak, the 2023 Pinot Noir Freedom Hill Vineyard has inviting aromas of red cherry, cranberry, tangerine peel, tea leaves and thyme. The medium-bodied palate is bursting with juicy red fruit. It’s framed by silky tannins and has a long, perfumed finish.
 
Winemaker Notes
Freedom Hill Vineyard is the only Pinot Noir vineyard Patricia Green Cellars sources fruit from that is not in one of the smaller sub-AVAs of the Willamette Valley. It sits solely in the larger Willamette Valley AVA. While technically located in the Eola Hills, this site is just outside of the southwestern border of the Eola-Amity AVA in the town of Dallas. Historically, Freedom Hill Vineyard was known on labels like Panther Creek Cellars, Ken Wright Cellars, Bethel Heights Vineyard and St. Innocent Winery. It has a reputation for producing some of the largest scale and most structured Pinot Noirs in the valley. As phyloxera grabbed hold of the original plantings, the re-plantings and additions to the vineyard were put in on the common single-wire vertical trellis system that is most common in the Northern Willamette Valley. This has allowed for wines that still possess great intensity born from the Marine Sedimentary soil known as Bellpine. The finished wines currently flourish with tannin structure that is richer and more complex than wines from the early years.