Purple Hands Dundee Hills Pinot Noir Latchkey Vineyard 2023 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 honey and baked apple notes

honey and baked apple notes predominating

no pretense

Whole-cluster pressed

vinified cleanly to let Sauvignon Blanc and the Loire's chalky soils do the talking

Fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in neutral oak

Purple Hands Dundee Hills Pinot Noir Latchkey Vineyard 2023 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 honey and baked apple notesPurple Hands is Cody Wright's own thing launched in 2005 after a teenage apprenticeship at his father Ken Wright's Carlton winery and the Latchkey bottling is a single vineyard window into the Dundee Hills' deep red Jory volcanic soils. The site sits at 500 feet on a southeast aspect, 13 acres of mostly Pommard clone Pinot Noir farmed for depth and complexity rather than power. The 2023 shows bright red and dark fruit with floral lift and savory