hopewell hills eola amity hills pinot noir

Rose & Arrow

Hopewell Hills, Eola Amity Hills, Pinot Noir, 2016

Name: Hopewell Hills, Eola Amity Hills, Pinot Noir
Brand: Rose & Arrow
Price: 82.98 GBP

91+/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

93/100

Vinous

Available Vintages

all 2016

delivery

in bond

portfolio

Last Few
2016
75cl
DP
£82.98
Last Few
2016
6x75cl
DP
£497.92

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

A touch of brisk reduction that soon blows off to reveal then gunflint and vibrant red berry fruit. A saline edge leads through to the bittersweet, polished, savoury stony finish. The core feels like a wine from volcanic soils, deeply mineral but wrapped in polished fruit. From a vineyard of just 0.6ha, above and below Gathered Stones.

delivery information

GUARANTEED PROVENANCE

Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

93/100

Josh Raynolds,

Vinous

Deep, vivid ruby-red. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes fresh dark fruits, cherry pie, violet and exotic spices that are lifted by a smoky mineral overtone. Impressively concentrated yet lively on the palate, offering alluringly sweet, mineral-tinged cherry-cola, black raspberry and spicecake flavors that spread out steadily with air while taking on a floral pastille quality. Delivers a deft blend of power and finesse finishing very long and smoky, with harmonious tannins, outstanding clarity and floral-driven persistence.

drinking window 2022 - 2030

date of review 06/2019

91+/100

Erin Brooks,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

This is one of Rose & Arrow's "villages" wines. Fruit is sourced from a vineyard at 340 feet in elevation. Medium ruby-purple in color, the 2016 Pinot Noir Hopewell Hills opens with a strong reductive aroma, giving way with aeration to a core of dried red and black cherries, rose petals and turned earth. Medium-bodied, the palate gives up much more: luscious black fruits with red fruit hints, lovely floral notions, loamy earth and a strong crushed rock minerality. Its got a firm frame of silken tannins and juicy acidity, finishing long. Those reductive aromas were gone on the second day, so give this plenty of air. 247 cases produced.

drinking window 2018 - 2023

date of review 11/2018

product details

Specifications

Country:

Region:

Appellation:

Producer:

style:

Grape Variety:

abv:

15%

allergen information

This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.