2022 Arterberry Maresh 'Maresh Vineyard' Pinot Noir, Dundee Hills, USA (750ml)

WINEMAKER'S NOTES:

From 50 year old vines. Rose petal, black tea, rhubarb. Bright red, harmonious and complete. A streak of grip evenly fills the mouth and frames the layers of energetic red fruit.

TASTING NOTES:

The Maresh is a combination of 1970 and 1974 planted vines. Mouthfuls of complexity and elegance. High-toned red fruits and forest-driven umami character, pine bough, blood orange and spice. Long hang times for 2022, the low alcohol is evocative of Old World Pinot Noir. There is a darkness and complexity of the wine, with an intensity of flavor, only 5% new oak, 20 months in barrel. Spiced cinnamon, fresh red strawberries, savory clove and smoked sea salt, bring an intensity, and a crushed stone minerality finishes this beautiful wine. Silken elegance and intensity combine in a gorgeous wine

- Decanter, 97 pts.

Very subtle on the nose with forest berries, tea leaves, Morello cherries, wild herbs and some warm spices. Medium-bodied, yet it’s big on the palate. Suave and velvety, with an intense beauty on the mid-palate. Delicate, gentle texture all in harmony, yet it’s vibrant, energetic and very focused. The finish is agile and lively, with so much focus and length. It's authentic, well-crafted and long. Drink or hold

- James Suckling, 96 pts. 

The 2022 Pinot Noir Maresh Vineyard comes from vines planted in 1974 and was vinified and matured without new wood. It has a deep well of aromas that unfold slowly with each return to the glass: raspberry, strawberry and bitter orange give way to rosewater, rooibos tea leaves, forest floor and salumi. The palate is charming and effortless, balancing concentrated layers of perfumed fruit on a slender frame of silky tannins, and its vivacious energy and hauntingly long finish call you back to the glass again and again. While the 2021 Maresh Vineyard is chiseled and needs cellaring, this 2022 is already approachable.

- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 pts. 

The 2022 Pinot Noir Maresh Vineyard is compelling, to say the least, entrancing with its deep, dark and rich bouquet as black cherries are complicated by turned earth, flowery underbrush, and crushed ashen stones This is cool-toned, showing its mineralogy up front and creating an altoist sultry character. Depths of flinty, tart red berry fruit slowly saturate as zesty acidity maintains freshness. The 2022 is powerful and youthfully dense, with grippy tannins that take hold through the finish without slowing it’s momentum. It tapers off long with a hunt of balsam herbs that calls the taste back to the glass.

- Vinous, 95 pts.

Fragrant and beautifully proportioned, with elegantly layered raspberry and cherry flavors highlighted by orange peel, forest floor and fresh violet accents as this builds tension and polish toward refined tannins. Drink now through 2033. 2,500 cases made

- Wine Spectator, 94 pts.