Certified Biodynamic
 
98 Points James Suckling
A rich and layered red with blueberry, raspberry, peach and sandalwood aromas and flavors. So complete and broad shouldered, with framed and polished tannins and gorgeous fruit in the finish. A blend of top vineyards and a selection of the best wines. One for the cellar. A couple years of bottle age will make it even better.
 
97 Points Decanter
David Hirsch idealised the Reserve wine to be a blend of the vineyard's best blocks each vintage. The goal is to show Hirsch in a bottle like no other. The 2022 release is a well-structured wine that opens with a lovely umami and savoury quality, evolving into a floral, citrus, and mineral 'classic' Hirsch finish"a wine with a long life ahead.
 
96 Points Vinous
The 2022 Pinot Noir Estate Reserve is a blend of the top blocks on the ranch. Powerful and imposing, the 2022 is seriously deep. It is another wine that is going to require a number of years to soften. Dark red-toned fruit, chalk, mint, iron, dried herbs and orange peel linger. As good as the Reserve is, as a blend, it obviously does not offer the same nuanced expression of site as some of the other wines in the range.
 
95 Points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Pinot Noir Reserve is a blend of fruit from several of Hirsch’s vineyards, including Maritime, West Ridge and Block 8. It has slowly opening aromas of blackberries, mossy bark, potpourri, cinnamon and bitters. The medium-bodied palate is bursting with wild fruit! It’s framed by barely-there, silky tannins and mouthwatering acidity, and it has a long, flavorful finish.
 
Winemaker Note
Our Reserve Estate Pinot Noir is a serious and classic wine, with great focus, refinement and intensity. David Hirsch dreamed for many years of making a Reserve Pinot Noir from his vines. Since our first Reserve in 2009, we have endeavored to capture the most complete and powerful expression of the Hirsch Vineyard through selecting our very best and oldest vineyard blocks for this wine.

The Reserve is crafted by our winemaker through a careful blending process that begins by identifying the finest vineyard blocks from a given vintage, then selecting the finest individual barrels from those blocks. The goal is to capture the entirety of our complex vineyard in its highest form, making the Reserve Estate Pinot Noir the most striking and complete representation of the Hirsch estate.
 
A powerful expression of the Hirsch Vineyard selected from our very best and oldest vineyard blocks, the 2022 Reserve is a serious and classic expression of Pinot Noir, with great focus, refinement and intensity. A complex nose of Bing cherries, cranberry, resin, plum skin, wet stone and earth enliven a mouth-filling palate, with great continuity and length.
We recommend cellaring this wine for a few years before drinking.