2021 Picardy ‘Tete de Cuvee’ Pinot Noir
Arriving in less than two weeks!
Ray Jordan - WA Wine Review:
So, here’s the thing. The ’20 Tete was the wine Bill Pannell was waiting for most of his life. It was a wonderful wine. But the ’21 comes along and delivers a wine of equal class and refinement, but in a slightly prettier more seductive and alluring form, a product of this cooler year. Complex weave of aromas with a truffly subtle earth merging seamlessly with the primary dark cherry and light raspberry primary fruit characters. The palate has a deep fruit intensity, but the fine-grained oak and slightly chalky tannins pull it back to focus with precision to a long linear palate. So much promise here.
Winery Notes:
Tête De Cuvée means the best wine of the vintage. This wine was born through Bill's and Dan's love of old world Pinot Noir wines and their desire to make the best Pinot Noir of which Picardy is capable.This wine is not a reserve wine made in the usual method of selecting the best barrels for separate bottling. Instead, it is made entirely as a separate wine with a greater emphasis on intensity, complexity, structure and cellaring potential. We have been exceptionally happy with each vintage since the introduction, in the 2018 vintage, of six new specially selected Pinot Noir clones sourced from Burgundy. Eleven clones now contribute to our Pinot. Coupled with a superb growing season, increasing vine age (our oldest Pinot vines are 28 years old) .
Arriving in less than two weeks!
Ray Jordan - WA Wine Review:
So, here’s the thing. The ’20 Tete was the wine Bill Pannell was waiting for most of his life. It was a wonderful wine. But the ’21 comes along and delivers a wine of equal class and refinement, but in a slightly prettier more seductive and alluring form, a product of this cooler year. Complex weave of aromas with a truffly subtle earth merging seamlessly with the primary dark cherry and light raspberry primary fruit characters. The palate has a deep fruit intensity, but the fine-grained oak and slightly chalky tannins pull it back to focus with precision to a long linear palate. So much promise here.
Winery Notes:
Tête De Cuvée means the best wine of the vintage. This wine was born through Bill's and Dan's love of old world Pinot Noir wines and their desire to make the best Pinot Noir of which Picardy is capable.This wine is not a reserve wine made in the usual method of selecting the best barrels for separate bottling. Instead, it is made entirely as a separate wine with a greater emphasis on intensity, complexity, structure and cellaring potential. We have been exceptionally happy with each vintage since the introduction, in the 2018 vintage, of six new specially selected Pinot Noir clones sourced from Burgundy. Eleven clones now contribute to our Pinot. Coupled with a superb growing season, increasing vine age (our oldest Pinot vines are 28 years old) .
Arriving in less than two weeks!
Ray Jordan - WA Wine Review:
So, here’s the thing. The ’20 Tete was the wine Bill Pannell was waiting for most of his life. It was a wonderful wine. But the ’21 comes along and delivers a wine of equal class and refinement, but in a slightly prettier more seductive and alluring form, a product of this cooler year. Complex weave of aromas with a truffly subtle earth merging seamlessly with the primary dark cherry and light raspberry primary fruit characters. The palate has a deep fruit intensity, but the fine-grained oak and slightly chalky tannins pull it back to focus with precision to a long linear palate. So much promise here.
Winery Notes:
Tête De Cuvée means the best wine of the vintage. This wine was born through Bill's and Dan's love of old world Pinot Noir wines and their desire to make the best Pinot Noir of which Picardy is capable.This wine is not a reserve wine made in the usual method of selecting the best barrels for separate bottling. Instead, it is made entirely as a separate wine with a greater emphasis on intensity, complexity, structure and cellaring potential. We have been exceptionally happy with each vintage since the introduction, in the 2018 vintage, of six new specially selected Pinot Noir clones sourced from Burgundy. Eleven clones now contribute to our Pinot. Coupled with a superb growing season, increasing vine age (our oldest Pinot vines are 28 years old) .
