20% new and 80% old French oak barriques for 12 months
Alcohol %
13
Wine Spectator
93
Wine Enthusiast
91
2016 Hope Well Pinot Noir 1.5L
94pts | Tim Fish, Wine Spectator “Sleek and trim, with expressive cherry and black tea aromas and steely raspberry, stony mineral and sweet anise flavors that persist toward refined tannins"
94pts | Josh Raynolds, Vinous
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Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
The wine has a round, mouth-filling texture with rose petal and exotic spice aromas, and red fruit flavors that continue through the finish.
Sorted on a vibrating table before the whole clusters of lignified stems and perfectly ripened fruit were fed bin by bin, not pumped, into the small format stainless steel fermenting tanks of between 2 to 5-ton capacity. Hope Well is about 40% whole cluster. Fermentation began with gentle pump overs. Foulage and pigeage were done traditionally by foot as needed. After fermentation, the wines aged in a combination of 20% new and 80% old French oak barriques for 12 months and 5 months in tank prior to bottling.