Saturated, vivid red. A highly perfumed bouquet displays spice- and mineral-accented red and blue fruit preserve, incense, potpourri and licorice scents and a hint of freshly turned earth. Alluringly sweet and expansive in the mouth, offering concentrated boysenberry, black raspberry, exotic spice and lavender pastille flavors that show impressive litheness for their depth. Polished tannins emerge slowly on a strikingly long finish that leaves juicy dark berry and five-spice powder notes behind. 50% whole clusters; 26% new French oak. -- Josh Raynolds

The fruit for this wine comes from Hopewell, Mimi Casteel’s meticulously farmed vineyard. Larry Stone and his winemaker, Thomas Savre, include about 50 percent whole clusters in the fermentation, and that—plus the wild and vibrant fruit character that Casteel encourages through regenerative agriculture—results in pinot noir of exotic aromatics, profound depth and exceptional concentration. Scents of thyme and lavender, humus, bergamot and smoke overlay a wine deep in dark-berry flavor with an intensity that assures a long life ahead. —P.J.C. (430 cases)

Mimi Casteel's Hopewell Vineyard is the source for this complex and detailed wine. An aromatic weave of bee pollen, wild berry and rose opens into a balanced palate. Those scents turn into flavors, along with cherries and a seam of root beer. PAUL GREGUTT

Medium ruby, the 2018 Pinot Noir Mimi's Mind has broody aromas of blackberries laced with earth, aniseed and classy whole-cluster spice. The palate is medium-bodied, black-fruited, glossy and ultra fresh with a lovely dichotomy of bright freshness lifting the long finish.