Stats
- Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir
- Vineyard: Scanlon Vineyard & Sam Virgara's vineyard (Piccadilly Valley)
- Vine Age: 18-24-years-old
- Soil Type: Shallow, fractured clay over limestone
- Viticulture: Practicing organic
- Fermentation: Native — open-top fermenters (40% whole-bunch)
- Skin Contact: 7 days
- Aging: 6 months in seasoned (75%) and new (25% French oak barriques
- Alcohol: 12.5%
- pH: 3.65
- Total Acidity: 5.2 g/L
- Total SO2: 119 ppm
- Total Production: 107 cases
Tasting Notes
Rustic and brooding, yet with a wild fruit profile. Wild boysenberries, sour black cherry, and thyme glide in a cool, weightless arc, as if the wine is leaning on air. The texture is whisper-thin yet soulful, briny and melodic, like a song fading but never ending. It’s Pinot Noir as a haiku: precise, fleeting, unforgettable.
Press & Reviews
James Suckling
95
"Fragrant, perfumed and sophisticated. Aromas of crushed raspberries, forest floor, orange peel and cassia bark on the nose. The palate is very finely integrated, with fine tannins, a generous texture and precise acidity, giving notes of wet earth, blackberry bush and cocoa. Exceptionally well constructed with all the hallmarks of a great pinot noir. Drink or hold."