Rose & Arrow Hopewell Hills Gathered Stones Pinot Noir 2018

Professional Ratings

• 97 James Suckling

  Super complex with pine needles, bark, mushrooms, blackberries, dried strawberries and pumice. Full and very layered with tightly wound tannins with chalky texture and a juicy finish. Ethereal forest flower nature to it. One for the cellar.

• 95 Wine & Spirits
  Hopewell Hills is a shallow-soiled fragment of fractured-stone in the basalt structure of the Eola Hills. In 2018, it produced a wine like no other I’ve ever tasted from Oregon. It has a vigorous spiciness when first poured, a series of reductive aromas of tar and rail ties and oil that fall away one by one, revealing, by day two, a wine of stunning complexity and fulsome flavor. That industrial savor becomes a background the fruit rests on like a dancer on a stage. By day three, the wine’s aromas are explosive, reminiscent of a spice bazaar—cardamom, ginger, chai and cacao, all wound around expansive, pure cherry fruit. A bravura performance.
• 94 Jeb Dunnuck

  The 2018 Pinot Noir Hopewell Hills Gathered Stones is highly perfumed with baked cherry, pine, and medicinal herbs, while the palate is dry with dusty, chalky tannins and lots of resinous depth of fruit, including notes of red plum, baking spice, tea leaf, and leather.