Patricia Green Cellars

Jim Anderson's start in Oregon wine came in 1993, when a visit to the Autumn Wind tasting room and winery led to work at a small, family-owned Oregon winery, in both the winery and the tasting room; in 1994 Myron Redford, owner of Amity Vineyards, brought him in to work harvest. From 1995 Anderson worked alongside Green at Torii Mor, where his position covered a wholesale and direct sales program and the books and financials. In 2000 the two left Torii Mor, a winery they had built up since its inception in 1993, and a month later the owners of Autumn Wind asked whether they would buy them out. Green and Anderson bought the winery and its vineyard in 2000 and started Patricia Green Cellars. They built the winery on the idea that there were great vineyards in Oregon that could produce uniquely excellent wines if people dedicated themselves to the farming and winemaking necessary to do so. Patty Green (1955-2017) remains the winery's namesake, and it has carried on in her name.

• 1993: Jim Anderson began working in the Oregon wine industry after a visit to Autumn Wind; 1994: harvest at Amity Vineyards.
• 2000: Green and Anderson left Torii Mor and bought the Autumn Wind winery and vineyard, starting Patricia Green Cellars.
• Patty Green (1955-2017); the winery carries on in her name.

As of December 2025, Jim Anderson was owner and winemaker. Matthew Russell, associate winemaker, began making wines at Patricia Green Cellars in 2007. Margaret Barry, general manager, took over sales in 2014, with a focus on direct-to-consumer sales and the wine club. Melissa Groshong, national sales director, came to the winery in 2003 and is the main contact for distributors and wholesalers. Juan Carlos Olmedo joined in 2006 as a tractor operator and in 2017 became vineyard manager, running all vineyard operations.

• Owner and winemaker (as of December 2025): Jim Anderson.
• Associate winemaker: Matthew Russell, at the winery since 2007.
• General manager: Margaret Barry; national sales director: Melissa Groshong.
• Vineyard manager: Juan Carlos Olmedo, in the role since 2017.

The estate lies in a long, narrow valley at the base of the Chehalem Hills, in the Ribbon Ridge appellation. The property is roughly 52 acres, beginning at North Valley Road at an elevation of 150 feet and rising to about 425 feet. The soil is a marine sedimentary soil known as Wellsford, thin, low in clay and highly drained, over a sandstone subsoil. The vineyard sits on top of a hill, and its blocks wrap around the hillside, giving a 360-degree aspect. Plantings date from 1984 to 2010, making sixteen individual sections of Pinot Noir out of about 26 acres of Pinot Noir; some blocks contain rows of alternating vine ages that are farmed, picked, fermented, barreled and bottled separately. The original planting, the 1.2-acre Winery Block of 1984, was the second oldest planting in the Ribbon Ridge AVA; it has since been grafted to Pommard and expanded to about 1.55 acres, and in 2017 and 2018 the last of its older vines were bottled on their own as First Vines. The Bonshaw Block, 1.5 acres, was planted to Sauvignon Blanc in 1990 and grafted to Pommard in 2000 and 2001; it is bottled on its own. Other named blocks include the Etzel Blocks (Pommard and Dijon 114), the Hallelujah Block (planted to Pinot Gris in 1990 and grafted to Pinot Noir in 2002), the Confluence and Fenceline Blocks (Wadensvil clone, planted in 1997), and the Fuego Block (Pommard, planted in 2010). In 2019 the lower part of the Ceremony Block was grafted to Dijon 76 and Dijon 96 Chardonnay, from Brick House Vineyard cuttings, and the Coury Clone Block was grafted to Coury Clone. Sauvignon Blanc covers right around 2 acres, from plantings in 1990, 2002 and 2003.

• About 52 acres from 150 to about 425 feet; Wellsford marine sedimentary soil over sandstone; a 360-degree aspect.
• Sixteen sections of Pinot Noir on about 26 acres, planted from 1984 to 2010.
• Winery Block (1984): the second oldest planting in the Ribbon Ridge AVA; First Vines bottled from its last older vines in 2017 and 2018.
• Bonshaw Block: 1.5 acres, planted to Sauvignon Blanc in 1990 and grafted to Pommard in 2000 and 2001.
• 2019: Chardonnay (Dijon 76 and Dijon 96) grafted in the Ceremony Block; Coury Clone grafted in the Coury Clone Block.

The original winery was built in 1986 as a 2,000-square-foot building, and a 1,500-square-foot addition with a covered crush pad followed in 1996. After buying the property in 2000, the new owners enclosed a 750-square-foot patio to serve as a barrel room and built a 1,250-square-foot barrel room. In 2019 a separate 2,000-square-foot warehouse allowed the winery to expand to its current and maximum size of about 20,000 cases. The barrel room is called the Heritage Vineyard Room; in Jim Anderson's words, it 'embodies the essence of our winery while showcasing Oregon’s historic sites.'

• 1986: original 2,000-square-foot winery; 1996: 1,500-square-foot addition.
• 2019: a 2,000-square-foot warehouse took the winery to its maximum size of about 20,000 cases.
• The barrel room is the Heritage Vineyard Room.

Since 2012 the winery has made a distinct point of cataloging, by making wine from them, sites that have relevance to the Oregon story of Pinot Noir. Balcombe Vineyard, about three quarters of the way up Breyman Orchard Road in the southern Dundee Hills, was planted in 1990 exclusively to the Pommard clone in volcanic Jory soil; the winery has managed it since 1997, and all of its fruit comes to Patricia Green Cellars. Of its five sections, one, at the lower southeast corner, is bottled separately as Block 1B. Durant Vineyard, also on Breyman Orchard Road and adjacent to Domaine Drouhin's estate vineyard, was originally planted in 1973; the winery's relationship with it began in 2010 with the original 1973 planting, the Bishop Block. After a spring hail storm in 2012 left those vines with essentially no fruit, the winery bought fruit from a 2000 planting of Dijon 115, bottled as Durant Vineyard, Madrone Block, and since 2013 both blocks have been bottled separately. In 2015 the winery revived its Chardonnay program with Dijon 95 and Dijon 76 fruit from Durant. Freedom Hill Vineyard was planted by Dan and Helen Dusschee in 1982; the winery sources close to 9 acres of Pinot Noir there across five sections planted to Pommard, Dijon 115 and Coury clones. The winery makes a Freedom Hill bottling from all five sections and also bottles each clone on its own. The winery's other vineyard sources include Anderson Family, Arcus, Chehalem Mountain, Hyland, La Belle Promenade, Lia's, Medici, Corrine, Ridgecrest and Weber.

• Balcombe Vineyard (Dundee Hills): Pommard clone planted in 1990 on Jory soil; managed by the winery since 1997; Block 1B bottled separately.
• Durant Vineyard (Dundee Hills): first planted in 1973; Bishop Block from 2010, Madrone Block (Dijon 115) from 2012, Chardonnay from 2015.
• Freedom Hill Vineyard: planted by Dan and Helen Dusschee in 1982; close to 9 acres of Pommard, Dijon 115 and Coury clones; a blend plus single-clone bottlings.
• Further sites include Anderson Family, Arcus, Chehalem Mountain, Hyland, La Belle Promenade, Lia's, Medici, Corrine, Ridgecrest and Weber.

The winery's 2022 Pinot Noir releases include Anderson Family Vineyard, Balcombe Vineyard Block 1B, Chehalem Mountain Vineyard Wadensvil Clone, Corrine Vineyard Anklebreaker Block, Corrine Vineyard Wadensvil Block, Durant Vineyard Madrone Block, Estate Vineyard Old Vine, Freedom Hill Vineyard, Freedom Hill Vineyard Coury Clone, Freedom Hill Vineyard Dijon 115 Clone, Freedom Hill Vineyard Perspicacious, Freedom Hill Vineyard Pommard Clone, La Belle Promenade Vineyard, La Belle Promenade Vineyard Ghost Barn Block and Lia's Vineyard. The 2022 Estate Vineyard Old Vine draws on plantings from 1984 to 2010 of Pommard, Dijon 114, Coury Clone and Wadensvil, at around 1 ton per acre, and 1,486 cases were bottled. White wines include an Estate Sauvignon Blanc, a Willamette Valley Sauvignon Blanc, an Estate Vineyard Chardonnay and a Durant Vineyard Chardonnay. The 2022 vintage was the winery's second largest harvest, after 2021. The wine club ships twice a year, in spring and fall, for an annual commitment of one case, and it gives members an allocation of the winery's small-production wines.

• 2022 Pinot Noirs include single-vineyard, single-block and single-clone bottlings, among them Balcombe Vineyard Block 1B, Corrine Vineyard Anklebreaker Block and Freedom Hill Vineyard Perspicacious.
• Estate Vineyard Old Vine 2022: Pommard, Dijon 114, Coury Clone and Wadensvil; 1,486 cases.
• Whites: Estate Sauvignon Blanc, Willamette Valley Sauvignon Blanc, Estate Vineyard Chardonnay and Durant Vineyard Chardonnay.
• Wine club: two shipments a year, one case in total.

At the farming level the winery is committed to dry-farming, and it farms and works with farmers who are committed to organic or high-level sustainable farming. Balcombe Vineyard is farmed organically, although the winery does not pursue certification. The winery's other environmental measures include lighter bottles, no decorative capsules, recycling of its waste water and solar power.

• Dry-farming; vineyards organically or sustainably farmed.
• Balcombe Vineyard farmed organically, without certification.
• Lighter bottles, no decorative capsules, waste water recycling and solar power.

The winery calls itself 'dedicated fully and solely to displaying the nature of Pinot Noir that is derived from where it is grown,' and says it 'enthusiastically and unapologetically produces more individual bottlings of Pinot Noir than any other winery in America.' Speaking to Decanter's William Kelley, Jim Anderson said: 'We are not trying to recreate Burgundy.' Kelley also reported that Anderson has noticed his Pinot Noir vines produce distinctly different fruit once they reach 20 years of age, the reason for the Estate Old Vine bottling.

In Decanter, William Kelley counted 21 single-vineyard Pinot Noirs from Patricia Green Cellars, 'the most of any North American winery.'

Primary sources (the producer's own site, read from web.archive.org copies because the live site returns a Cloudflare challenge): https://web.archive.org/web/20251006051039/https://www.patriciagreencellars.com/About-Us, https://web.archive.org/web/20251214222108/https://www.patriciagreencellars.com/About-Us/Our-Team, https://web.archive.org/web/20260706201205/https://www.patriciagreencellars.com/, https://web.archive.org/web/20251214234958/https://www.patriciagreencellars.com/Vineyards/Estate-Vineyard, https://web.archive.org/web/20251214234855/https://www.patriciagreencellars.com/Vineyards/Balcombe-Vineyard, https://web.archive.org/web/20251214225330/https://www.patriciagreencellars.com/Vineyards/Freedom-Hill-Vineyard, https://web.archive.org/web/20251107005437/https://www.patriciagreencellars.com/Vineyards/Durant-Vineyard, https://web.archive.org/web/20251107005413/https://www.patriciagreencellars.com/Buy-Our-Wines/2022, https://web.archive.org/web/20251006035747/https://www.patriciagreencellars.com/Buy-Our-Wines/White-Wines. Secondary source: Decanter (William Kelley, https://www.decanter.com/premium/oregon-burgundy-connection-378974/). Where the producer's site and a secondary source disagree, the producer's site governs. Last verified 2026-10-18