PRODUCT DETAILS

VINTAGE:          2024

GRAPE VARIETIES:          Pinot Noir

TYPE:          Red Wine

BOTTLE SIZE:          75 cl.

ABV:          13 % Vol.

RESIDUAL SUGAR:          < 1 g/l.

PRACTICES:                  Vegan Friendly – Sustainable Wines

TASTING NOTES

Red fruits dominate with cherry, raspberry, and red currant with just a hint of mulberry. A touch of savoury spice and smoke finish off the rounded palate, with a lingering finish.

PRODUCER PROFILE

Lyme Bay has trodden its own path with in the English wine industry. The Lyme Bay range is broad, from entry point bottles to single vineyard wines which represent the highest quality of fruit with in a given vintage. They have trusted growers from Herefordshire to Essex which gives them the climactic variety to pick the right fruit for each cuvée.

VINEYARD & VINIFICATION

A cool summer was followed by a late warm spell into October, allowing for extended hang time on the vines, ensuring the grapes reached peak physiological ripeness. Hand harvested between 26th October and 3rd November 2021. Small batch fermentations were undertaken with 10% whole bunch fruit, manual pigéage (punchdowns) took place up to 3 times a day to gently maximise the extraction of colour, flavour, and structure. The wine was then transferred to barrel for 100% malolactic fermentation. 32% new French oak was used, as well as older barrels from French, Eastern European and American origins. Aged for 11 months in barrel, the wine was then blended and left to settle several weeks before bottling. The wine has no fining, and only a light filtration to retain the delicate nuances of the fruit and oak.