New Arrivals
2022 Arterberry Maresh Pinot Noir, Dundee Hills, USA
$34.99 USD
Winemaker Notes
A blend of Maresh and Weber. This was the most difficult blend to put together as the worst barrel from 21 woud have been the best barrel in the cellar 5 or 6 vintages. Excellent growing season with small and loose cluster formation. The color of the wine is bright red but the essense of the fruit is a darker red, very complex and concentrated. Bright polished Dundee Hills nectar with firm tannins and almost no discernible alcohol.
2019 vintage notes
93 points Wine Spectator, "Smart Buy": "Shows class and elegance, with an almost effortless complexity that offers floral cherry and cranberry flavors laced with notes of black tea and dusky spice, gliding on the polished finish. Drink now through 2029."
94 points Wine Advocate: "The 2019 Pinot Noir Dundee Hills is ethereal and perfumed this vintage. It offers pure scents of raspberry preserves, bergamot, tangerine and Angostura with wafts of sweet balsamic. The palate is soft, bright and super silky, with layer after layer of sweet fruit, spice and citrus, and it finishes long and perfumed."
High tones of strawberry, currant, pomegranate, soy sauce and white pepper. Likes a few minutes in the glass to get silky and integrate. Bright, crisp and pure. Red fruits that lean more toward savory than to sweet fruit. Fine tannins, very classic Dundee Hills structure.
2018 vintage notes
The fruit intensity and substance of a warmer vintage plus the purity and elegance of a cooler vintage. In Goldilocks terms, this is just right. I've had it open three days and it is drinking absolutely perfectly right now–I'm not ashamed to say that I'm drinking a glass of it right now as I'm writing this and when I'm done, I'll pour myself another!
It spent a full 18 months in barrel because Jim felt like it needed it. Whether or not it did, it's impossible to taste it without noticing the extended aging having worked its magic in the texture, the feel of it.
The 2018 sports serious old vine pedigree: 55% Maresh, 25% Dux, 20% Anderson Family vineyards. - Marcus
2017 vintage notes
Utterly crushable. Fresh strawberry and cherry aromas and flavors are everywhere, and impossible to resist (hence, the crushable part). The first bottle I opened at the house was gone in 15 minutes...and there were only three of us! It's that kind of juice, similar to the Old Vines, that's pure, fresh, silky, sexy -- why we seek Pinot noir. - Marcus
2016 vintage notes
93 points Wine Advocate: "The 2016 Pinot Noir Dundee Hills has a lovely open nose of warm cinnamon stick, cranberry and baked red cherry pie with black tea leaf and potpourri spice. Light to medium-bodied, it fills the mouth with warm red fruit and layers of baking spice, earth and mineral—dried leaves, oolong tea, warm earth—with a good frame of fine-grained tannins and plenty of juicy acidity, finishing long and spicy."
A blend of Maresh and Weber. This was the most difficult blend to put together as the worst barrel from 21 woud have been the best barrel in the cellar 5 or 6 vintages. Excellent growing season with small and loose cluster formation. The color of the wine is bright red but the essense of the fruit is a darker red, very complex and concentrated. Bright polished Dundee Hills nectar with firm tannins and almost no discernible alcohol.
2019 vintage notes
93 points Wine Spectator, "Smart Buy": "Shows class and elegance, with an almost effortless complexity that offers floral cherry and cranberry flavors laced with notes of black tea and dusky spice, gliding on the polished finish. Drink now through 2029."
94 points Wine Advocate: "The 2019 Pinot Noir Dundee Hills is ethereal and perfumed this vintage. It offers pure scents of raspberry preserves, bergamot, tangerine and Angostura with wafts of sweet balsamic. The palate is soft, bright and super silky, with layer after layer of sweet fruit, spice and citrus, and it finishes long and perfumed."
High tones of strawberry, currant, pomegranate, soy sauce and white pepper. Likes a few minutes in the glass to get silky and integrate. Bright, crisp and pure. Red fruits that lean more toward savory than to sweet fruit. Fine tannins, very classic Dundee Hills structure.
2018 vintage notes
The fruit intensity and substance of a warmer vintage plus the purity and elegance of a cooler vintage. In Goldilocks terms, this is just right. I've had it open three days and it is drinking absolutely perfectly right now–I'm not ashamed to say that I'm drinking a glass of it right now as I'm writing this and when I'm done, I'll pour myself another!
It spent a full 18 months in barrel because Jim felt like it needed it. Whether or not it did, it's impossible to taste it without noticing the extended aging having worked its magic in the texture, the feel of it.
The 2018 sports serious old vine pedigree: 55% Maresh, 25% Dux, 20% Anderson Family vineyards. - Marcus
2017 vintage notes
Utterly crushable. Fresh strawberry and cherry aromas and flavors are everywhere, and impossible to resist (hence, the crushable part). The first bottle I opened at the house was gone in 15 minutes...and there were only three of us! It's that kind of juice, similar to the Old Vines, that's pure, fresh, silky, sexy -- why we seek Pinot noir. - Marcus
2016 vintage notes
93 points Wine Advocate: "The 2016 Pinot Noir Dundee Hills has a lovely open nose of warm cinnamon stick, cranberry and baked red cherry pie with black tea leaf and potpourri spice. Light to medium-bodied, it fills the mouth with warm red fruit and layers of baking spice, earth and mineral—dried leaves, oolong tea, warm earth—with a good frame of fine-grained tannins and plenty of juicy acidity, finishing long and spicy."