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Purple Hands - Pinot Noir - Shea Vineyard2023

RED WINE

PUBLIC
February 2026
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Purple Hands - Pinot Noir - Shea Vineyard label
  • Producer Purple Hands Wine
  • Blend 100% Pinot Noir
  • Country USA
  • Region Oregon
  • Appellation Yamhill-Carlton
  • UPC 8 56750 00312 5

Reviews

Wine Enthusiast 93

It is challenging to resist an aroma that conjures memories of a boysenberry pie cooling on my grandmother's kitchen counter. The fruit is joined by additional aromas of violets, duff and cedar. These tannins ripple and flex like the muscles of a black panther. They prowl in support of tart mulberry, sweet Tahitian vanilla and espresso flavors.

by MA, Wine Enthusiast , 2025

Wine Spectator 92

Tightly focused and densely structured, with deep flavors of blueberry and cherry highlighted by dusky spices and black tea as this gathers tension and tannins on the firm finish.

by TF, Wine Spectator , 2025

Jeb Dunnuck 96

Coming from WillaKenzie soils in Yamhill-Carlton, the 2023 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard is all 777 clone and pours a youthful ruby red color. It's another highly expressive wine with wild berries and wild herbs taking charge, with juniper, saddle leather, and very pretty notes of wild raspberries starting to shine through and take the lead as it opens. Medium-bodied, this wine exhibits a refined texture with fine tannins, refreshing acidity, and a mouthwatering finish.

by AF, Jeb Dunnuck , 2025

James Suckling 94

Enticing aromas of pomegranates and dried spices, such as cinnamon and cardamom waft from the glass, together with lavender, toasted orange peel, purple plums and licorice. It's medium-bodied, spicy and concentrated, but cool and lightweight at the same time, with silky tannins and a long, supple finish. Drink or hold.

by JS, James Suckling , 2025

Wine Advocate 93

The 2023 Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard opens with savory tones of flint, iron and leather that slowly give way to scents of red cherry, blackberry, bergamot and violet. The full-bodied palate has concentrated, spicy flavors. It's structured by chalky tannins and mouthwatering acidity and has a long, layered finish.

by EB, Wine Advocate , 2025

Technical Details

Ageing

10 months in French Oak, 25% New.

Estate

Shea Vineyard drapes over 140 acres of rolling hills in the Willamette Valley’s Yamhill-Carlton AVA. Dick Shea first planted the Back Block in 1989 and then replanted it in the mid-90s to eliminate the problem of phylloxera, a microscopic insect that feeds on grapevine roots. This fruit is some of the most coveted in the state. Cody sources from the highest elevation Shea block.

Tasting notes

Mulberry, boysenberry, cocoa nibs, cinnamon, clove, clotted cream, coffee, toasted vanilla, fruit leather, golden delicious apple.

Vinification

Purple Hands is a low intervention, purity-driven winery. Ferments are a mixture of techniques: native yeasts, and some commercial strains as needed. 25% whole cluster for 2023. Skin macerations are vintage-dependent styles. Wines are bottled unfined and unfiltered to retain the honesty of the vineyard and the vintage.