Purple Hands West Wind Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022 - 750ml

95pts Jeb Dunnuck

A youthful red hue, the 2022 Pinot Noir West Wind Vineyard is lifted with aromas of wild, crunchy mixed berries, dark stones, peppery spice, and pine needles. Medium bodied, it has a linear feel, with ripe tannins and energetic acidity driving through the finish. A lovely wine, it’s going to age with ease over the next 10 years.

95pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2022 Pinot Noir West Wind Vineyard comes from vines planted from 2017 to 2019 in sedimentary soils. It’s an impressive wine from young vines, offering surprising earthy, spicy complexity. It’s scented of cranberry sauce, Angostura bitters, wildflowers and woodsy tones and continues to unfurl aromatically as it airs in the glass. The medium-bodied palate features highly concentrated, detailed flavors. It’s structured by silky tannins and vibrant acidity and has a long finish with a flourish of spicy accents.

94pts Wine Enthusiast - Editor's Choice

This is a powerfully aromatic wine, with boysenberry sorbet, violets in potting soil and bittersweet dark chocolate scents filling the air. Acidity that's an eight on a scale of one to ten lights up black raspberry, cashew, thyme and brown sugar flavors. I will follow the West Wind anywhere. I hope it takes me to a plate of beef cheeks. 

92pts James Suckling

Notes of red berries, spices, dried flowers and wet stone on the nose. Dry and chalky with a dusty texture to its tannins and a medium body. Juicy and savory with a refreshing finish. Drink now or hold.

Wine Spectator

Savory and dense, offering modest flavors of cherry, forest floor and spices before finishing with slightly grippy tannins. Tasted three times, with similar results. Drink now through 2028. 815 cases made.

Tasting Notes

Blueberry gelato, blackberry cream, dark chocolate, candied pistachios, vanilla extract, almond mocha, honey comb, salt water taffy.

Vineyard Notes

West Wind Vineyard is situated in the middle of Ribbon Ridge overlooking the eastern shoulder. The majority of the vineyard sits at 400-600 ft. Total planted acreage is 14; all of which is planted to Pinot Noir. The first 6 acres were planted in the Fall of 2017 and the last 8 acres in the Fall 2019. Cody and Marque developed this vineyard, and the first crop of Pinot Noir came in the 2021 vintage.