Purple Hands Lone Oak Pinot Noir 2018
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The 2018 vintage shows beautiful layers and depth with balance and tension. Red, blue, and black fruit, cinnamon, clove, spice, pomegranate, white chocolate, sassafras, strawberry, honyecrisp apple, black and red licorice, deep red color, and rich dense layers of complexity.
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James Suckling
This has plenty of instantly appealing, rich and ripe red cherries, as well as blueberries and plums. The purity continues to the palate, where there’s a fleshy and succulent delivery of the same fruit. Good concentration and drink ability. Drink now.
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This is compounded from eight vineyards scattered over five Willamette Valley AVAs. A lovely wine, it tastes of ripe plums accented with savory herbs and red licorice. It's seamless and compelling, clearly given the same care as the unblended single-vineyard wines of which it is composed.
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Purple Hands Vineyards celebrates site-specific pinot noir and chardonnay that unearth the Willamette Valley’s long evolutionary history. Using traditional winemaking techniques, they strive to produce wines that convey an honest expression of each of their vineyards—its grapevines and cultivation, soil and stone, sunshine and rain. All of their wines undergo native fermentation and remain unfined and unfiltered at bottling to preserve their natural, wild character. Achieving elegance in this pursuit is the passion and art of their craft.
Over the past 40 years, Cody’s family has created a legacy of quality in the Oregon wine industry. Their winemaking styles and techniques helped Oregon’s Willamette Valley become the premium Pinot noir producing region in the world. At Purple Hands, Cody continues to build on the standard of excellence initiated by the previous generation.
Home of some of the planet’s most amazingly elegant and expressive Pinot noir, the Willamette Valley is a pastoral, mixed landscape of green, bucolic rolling hills, dramatic forestlands and small, independent, friendly wine growers. As a leader in environmental stewardship, the valley has some of the nation’s most protective land use policies, with two-thirds of its vineyards farmed sustainably and over half, organically. While the valley claims a cool, continental climate, and is heavily influenced by the cold, moist winds of the Pacific Ocean, its warm and dry summers allow for the steady, even ripening of Pinot noir.
The potential of Willamette Valley Pinot noir continues to attract the investment of serious growers and winemakers both locally and from abroad, as naturally the finished wines bring accolades from professionals and enthusiasts. With a range of styles from delicate dried cherry, raspberry and hibiscus to stronger notes of truffle, mocha, plum and spice, a fine Willamette Valley Pinot noir is a perfect expression of both character and grace.