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Purple Hands - Pinot Noir - Lone Oak Ranch

2022
Blend
100% Pinot Noir
Country
USA
Region
Oregon
Appellation
Willamette Valley
UPC
8 56750 00303 3
Red Wine
Verified Stock
70855-22
Product Ratings
Decanter 92pt

The Lone Oak Ranch bottling is a broader Willamette Valley blend from Purple Hands. Perfumed violets pounce from the glass with rich mulberries and forest floor. The palate is lushly fruited with cool blue and blackberry fruits, tart Montmorency cherry flesh, tangy blood orange spice and a wonderfully textured finale.

by Decanter, 2024
James Suckling 93pt

Bright and vivid pinot with notes of cherries, raspberries, dried hibiscus and potpourri. Medium-bodied, juicy and fresh, with fine tannins and delicious red fruit character. Chalk and minerals in the finish. Drink now or hold.

by James Suckling, 2024
Wine Enthusiast 91pt

A bright red cherry fruit note is nice but mix in the scent of bone marrow spread on toast points and you have yourself an aromatic party. Nice acidity helps to create a lively mouthfeel to accompany perky orange zest and pie cherry flavors. There is even a touch of bacon hovering on the perimeter. Hungry yet?

by Wine Enthusiast, 2024
Wine Spectator 92pt

Broad-shouldered in structure, with lilting raspberry and cherry flavors that take on black tea and dusky spice notes as this builds tension toward medium-grained tannins.

by Wine Spectator, 2024

Vinification

Purple Hands is a low input, purity-driven winery. Ferments are a mixture of techniques: Pied de Cuve, native yeasts, and some commercial strains as needed. Whole cluster and skin macerations are vintage-dependent styles. Wines are bottled unfined and unfiltered to retain the honesty of the vineyard.

Description

Lone Oak Ranch is intended as an introduction to Purple Hands, sold eclusively through our distributor partners. It is a cuvée from six premier vineyards from four Willamette Valley AVAs:Dundee Hills, Yamhill-Carlton, Ribbon Ridge, & Willamette Valley. This elegant Pinot Noir includes fruit from all of our vineyard-designates. Made of 100% Pinot Noir from the Willamette Valley and aged 10 Months, 85% Neutral Oak, 15% New French Oak.

Tasting notes

Purple Hands Lone Oak Ranch is a classic example of an elegant and balanced Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. Featuring notes of rhubarb, watermelon, cassis, cocoa, cinnamon, clove, pomegranate, raspberry, cherry, wild flower, sage, & bramble. Very food friendly and will pair with a wide variety of dishes.