Monsieur Touton Selection, Ltd.
212-255-0674

Purple Hands - Pinot Noir - Lone Oak Ranch2022

RED WINE

PUBLIC
April 2025
Prices and availability subject to confirmation
Purple Hands - Pinot Noir - Lone Oak Ranch label
  • Producer Purple Hands Wine
  • Blend 100% Pinot Noir
  • Country USA
  • Region Oregon
  • Appellation Willamette Valley
  • UPC 8 56750 00303 3

Reviews

James Suckling 93

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 JS, James Suckling , 2024

Wine Enthusiast 91

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 MA, Wine Enthusiast , 2024

Wine Spectator 92

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 TF, Wine Spectator , 2024

Decanter 92

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 CP, Decanter , 2024

Wine Advocate 92

The 2022 Pinot Noir Lone Oak Ranch is an entry-level wine blended from the different single vineyards Purple Hands works with. Matured in 10% new oak, it has soft aromas of strawberry, licorice, forest floor, spice and floral perfume. The light-bodied palate is understated and fragrant with soft, dusty tannins, juicy acidity and an easygoing, spicy finish. Around 5,000 cases produced.

by EB, Wine Advocate , 2024

Technical Details

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.

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.