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SAINT CLAIR PIONEER BLOCK 10 TWIN HILLS PINOT NOIR 2020
Country: New Zealand, Marlborough, Omaka Valley
Grape: Pinot Noire
Grape: Pinot Noire
Soil: Compact, clay-rich, vigour moderating soils
Climate: A warm site with higher temperature days and cooler nights than average in Marlborough.
Viticulture: The fruit was carefully monitored during ripening and harvested in the cool of the evening at maximum flavour maturity and physiological ripeness. This is a blend of Dijon clone 114 and Dijon clone 667 with a whole cluster component of 15%.
Tasting Notes: Deeply coloured ruby core with a thin light purple rim. Concentrated dark fruit aromas with spice and savoury notes. The palate is dense, dark and brooding with complex mixed forest berry flavours, coffee, new leather and a rich silky structure. The finish is long and lingering with a combination of charred oak, spice and savoury notes.
Food Pairing: Ideally matched with mustard and herb-crusted rack of lamb with seasonal roasted vegetables.
Climate: A warm site with higher temperature days and cooler nights than average in Marlborough.
Viticulture: The fruit was carefully monitored during ripening and harvested in the cool of the evening at maximum flavour maturity and physiological ripeness. This is a blend of Dijon clone 114 and Dijon clone 667 with a whole cluster component of 15%.
Tasting Notes: Deeply coloured ruby core with a thin light purple rim. Concentrated dark fruit aromas with spice and savoury notes. The palate is dense, dark and brooding with complex mixed forest berry flavours, coffee, new leather and a rich silky structure. The finish is long and lingering with a combination of charred oak, spice and savoury notes.
Food Pairing: Ideally matched with mustard and herb-crusted rack of lamb with seasonal roasted vegetables.
Case Bottles: 6
Product Id: 0262
For orders €100,00 and above we deliver free to your place
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For orders below €100,00 delivery charge €10,00 within city limits
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy`s Côte d`Or.
Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climates of the Côte d`Or.
Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.
The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.
Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climates of the Côte d`Or.
Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.
The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.
