95 Points Wine Advocate
The 2022 Pinot Noir Justice Vineyard has layered aromas of pomegranate, blueberry, orange bitters, wildflowers and mossy bark. The medium-bodied palate demands your attention with its concentrated, powerful flavors. Abundant, velvety tannins and bright acidity structures its opulent fruit, and it has a long, luxuriously spicy finish. It will benefit from 3-5 years in bottle.
93 Points Vinous
The 2022 Pinot Noir Justice Vineyard displays an intense and beguiling blend of currants, grilled herbs, crushed ashen stones and savory herbs. This is round and soothing with cooling acidity and a lifted feel throughout as ripe red berry fruits wash across the palate, giving way to a sensation of liquid stone. It leaves the cheeks puckered, tapering off with a lasting tension as silty tannins saturate.
Winemaker Notes:
The 2022 Justice Vineyard designate comes from six blocks spanning the northern section of the vineyard. Justice has historically been the most imposing and muscular of our offerings, and 2022 is no exception; a dense, well-structured wine with balanced acidity and an abundance of black fruits and well-integrated barrel spice on the palate. As with all our wines from 2022 (and our wines in general) the Justice will benefit from at least 3-5 years in the bottle and have much more to give with more time.
Justice Vineyard sits adjacent to Bethel Heights Vineyard on the south, at a slightly lower elevation, where the underlying primeval sea-floor is tilted up and exposed to the surface below a very thin layer of volcanic topsoil. Grapes grown on these ancient marine sediments have a very different life experience from those grown in the volcanic soils at Bethel Heights, and the wines from Justice tell that tale quite dramatically. Certified Organically Grown.
