96 Points - International Wine Report
- Resting 10 months in 30% new French oak, the 2022 Shea Vineyard Pinot Noir from Purple Hands pours a gorgeous medium neon ruby core with a lighter pink rim. It possesses a unique personality that slowly opens to notes of crushed huckleberries, marionberries, sweet spice, crushed gravel, and purple flower petals. There are enough tannins and balanced acidity that this Pinot should cellar well for the next 10 years. You can taste the terrier in the wine with old vines planted in the early 1990s. 644 cases were produced. Highly recommended and editor’s choice.
96 Points - Jeb Dunnuck
- From one of the highest elevations in this vineyard, the 2022 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard is a transparent red hue and is aromatic of ripe cherries, spices, mossy earth, and a lightly gamey but clean earth note. It is an elegant and lifted expression of the Shea Vineyard, with bright acidity, fine tannins, and a more linear feel, and as it opens, it starts to show its broader shoulders and its deeper notes come through. Drink 2025-2040.
94 Points - James Suckling
- Very aromatic with notes of cherries, raspberries, dried blood oranges and hints of cocoa and licorice. Juicy and bright with a medium body, offering fine, silky tannins and delicious fruit with notes of crushed stones. Refreshing and long. Drink or hold
94 Points - Decanter
- Undeniably Oregon Pinot Noir from the iconic Shea Vineyards in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA. Classic red bramble aromatics along side gravelly dust and fresh thyme notes. The palate is fresh and lively. Bright red raspberry, tart cranberry and spiced blood orange alight the front palate. An array of fresh wild herbs, subtle clove spice, and a gorgeous fresh mint character frames a Burgundian-style finish.
93 Points - Wine Spectator
- Handsomely structured and refined, offering multilayered flavours of black Cherry and blueberry. Shows black tea and savoury spice accents while building tension toward medium-grained tannins. Drink now through 2032.
92 Points - Wine Enthusiast
- Talk about flower power! The Purple Hands Shea opens with aromas of fresh rose petals, lavender, red raspberries and a mild potting soil note. The garden party continues with flavors like blackberry, clove, wet slate and a cup of black tea. Lively acidity and fine-grained tannins hold it all together.
