Patricia Green Sauvignon Blanc Willamette Valley, 2025, 750ml

Description

The Willamette Valley Sauvignon Blanc is probably the most traditional in approach and style of the four bottlings. All the grapes are pressed immediately upon arrival at the winery. Most are hand-picked but a little bit from the East Valley sites are a combination of machine-picked and hand-picked. Juice is allowed to settle for a couple of days before being moved to fermenter where it is inoculated with one of, in the 2024 case, 5 different strains of bayanus yeast. Fermentations are generally fairly quick, less than a month. They are racked again off the hard lees and allowed to began their settling and aging process in 2,000 gallon stainless steel tanks. The goal across the entire breadth of the journey is to maximize the fruit characters from each site, lean into brightness/freshness and have enough texture that everything feels just right and tastes amazing.

Tasting Note: The 2024 Willamette Valley Sauvignon Blanc was our most popular and probably easily delicious bottling. In 2025 we had the good fortune to add 15 tons of fruit from Croft Vineyard which is easily Oregon’s largest planting and most recognized name in Sauvignon Blanc. It is rightly deserved. The textural addition that the Croft Vineyard fruit infuses lifts the wine and allows the high-toned nature of the fruit to really drift over a well-textured body. This still has the super-bright tone and tropical/limey fruit our Willamette Valley bottling has become associated with, but it now just has a richer tone to it overall which creates an even more pleasing sensation to its consumption. And at a relatively low ABV of 12.5% it is made for long, easy lunches that segue into fun-filled evenings.