Purple Hands Dundee Hills Pinot Noir Latchkey Vineyard 2023 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 vinified cleanly to let Sauvignon

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

approachable magnum format

Fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in neutral oak

honey and baked apple notes predominating

Sixty-year-old vines on limestone-rich soils are direct-pressed and aged in used barrels for 35 months

Purple Hands Dundee Hills Pinot Noir Latchkey Vineyard 2023 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 vinified cleanly to let SauvignonPurple 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