Gathered Stones, Hopewell Hills, Pinot Noir, 2016

Name: Gathered Stones, Hopewell Hills, Pinot Noir
Brand: Rose & Arrow
Price: 863.92 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2016

justerini & brooks tasting note

Again a touch of reduction then this mouth-watering mineral tang, stones and very small bright dark berry fruit. There’s a handsome complex minerality, wonderful layers of fruit that are both strong and delicate, sappy and sweet with briar, blackberry and Morello cherry. Great pixilation of flavours, lovely polish but also energy and rocks aplenty here…a vineyard composed of fractured basalt, with very little top soil, weathered over time to the size of small flat melons. A wine of energy and very fine stony structure.

critic reviews

94/100Josh Raynolds,Vinous

Brilliant magenta. Intensely perfumed, mineral- and spice-accented red/blue fruit and floral oil scents show excellent clarity . A hint of licorice adds depth. Offers palate-staining black raspberry, bitter cherry and spicecake on the palate, with a snap of smoky minerality zesty acidity and a white pepper flourish lending vivacity. Deepens and gains sweetness on the finish, which features lingering violet and spicecake qualities and smooth, polished tannins.

DRINKING WINDOW 2022 - 2030

date of review 06/2019

91+/100Erin Brooks,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

This is one of Rose & Arrow's "articulate" wines. Sourced from a vineyard at 340 feet in elevation planted on black, red and white basalt, the medium to deep ruby-purple colored 2016 Pinot Noir Hopewell HillsGathered Stones opens with some tarry/sulfur aromas, giving way with aeration to a black fruit and dark earth core. Medium-bodied, it floods the mouth with warm black cherries and dried blackberry fruit with touches of violet, dried leaves and earth plus a strong line of rocky minerality. Its structured by powerful but elegant tannins, juicy acidity and a very long, layered finish. Those reductive aromas dissipated by the second day the bottle was open. 225 cases produced.

DRINKING WINDOW 2019 - 2025

date of review 11/2018