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2021 Tolpuddle Vineyard Pinot Noir
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2021 PINOT NOIR
2021 Vintage
Following on from a wet winter, the season unfolded with wetter than average spring conditions. This regular rainfall helped set up good soil moisture in the vineyards. We have also experienced one of the coolest seasons on record, leading to a high percentage of smaller berries, giving lower yields and excellent concentration of flavour.
2021 Tolpuddle Vineyard Pinot Noir
This wine is true to the Tolpuddle Vineyard style. It has very intense red and dark berry fruit, as well as some wild fennel and rhubarb notes on the nose. On the palate, there is a lot of concentrated fruit, balanced by fresh acidity and some fine tannins. Cherry and raspberry notes through to darker blueberry and boysenberry give complexity to a palate that flows seamlessly, and some Chinese five spice characters give a hint of more savoury notes to come with time.
The grapes were all hand-picked and fermented as a combination of whole berries and whole bunches, in open fermenters, with gentle plunging. The wine was aged in French oak for nine months, of which about one third was new.
Cellaring Will repay careful cellaring for up to 12 years
Ideal serving temprature 16–18°C
Tolpuddle Vineyard
First Planted: 1988 to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir Winemakers: Martin Shaw and Adam Wadewitz
2021 Vintage
Following on from a wet winter, the season unfolded with wetter than average spring conditions. This regular rainfall helped set up good soil moisture in the vineyards. We have also experienced one of the coolest seasons on record, leading to a high percentage of smaller berries, giving lower yields and excellent concentration of flavour.
2021 Tolpuddle Vineyard Pinot Noir
This wine is true to the Tolpuddle Vineyard style. It has very intense red and dark berry fruit, as well as some wild fennel and rhubarb notes on the nose. On the palate, there is a lot of concentrated fruit, balanced by fresh acidity and some fine tannins. Cherry and raspberry notes through to darker blueberry and boysenberry give complexity to a palate that flows seamlessly, and some Chinese five spice characters give a hint of more savoury notes to come with time.
The grapes were all hand-picked and fermented as a combination of whole berries and whole bunches, in open fermenters, with gentle plunging. The wine was aged in French oak for nine months, of which about one third was new.
Cellaring Will repay careful cellaring for up to 12 years
Ideal serving temprature 16–18°C
Tolpuddle Vineyard
First Planted: 1988 to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir Winemakers: Martin Shaw and Adam Wadewitz