Beautiful vintages like 2024 risk losing a certain hook, or friction, in the wine. It can make it too easy and welcoming: seeing the forest but no longer the trees.
By picking early, we avoided this risk and were able to retain good acidity and a degree of disposition to provide interest in the wine.
Dark and bright fruit are the antagonists, with Morello cherry cutting through the riper characters. This pinot noir goes beyond typical varietal qualities to offer an array of complex and inviting aromatics.
The wine is comfortable, rounded and softly cushioned, moving effortlessly over the palate. Once it is in the back, the wine returns and resurfaces towards the front of the mouth with fine powdery tannins, like the white wash in “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” by Japanese artist Hokusai.
The hook is a little like the area between the fruit and the skin of a watermelon, with the tannins acting as chaperones and guiding the fruit toward each corner of the mouth.