2022 Burn Cottage Pinot Noir

The Detail:

• Finished wine detail: pH 3.75 TA 4.7 g/L Alc 13.5%
• Harvest: 17th March to 6th April
• Average Brix at harvest: 23.0
• Whole cluster percentage: 7%
• New oak percentage: 26%
• Average time in fermenter: 19 days
• Cooperages: Mercurey, Damy
• Compisition by block and clone:
  • 23% – Block 1: 114, 115, 777, Abel, CL5
  • 22% – Block 2: 10/5, 115, Ael. 667, CL5
  • 8% – Block 4: 777, Abel, 943
  • 6% – Block5s: Abel
  • 8% – Block 6: 115, 667
  • 25% – Block 7: 114, 667, 777, Abel
  • 4% – Block 8: 667, 10/5, MV6
  • 4% – Block 10: 828
• Plant density: 5000 vines/Ha

Complex with dark cherry notes, violets and bright florals complimenting earthy, flint mineral tones and darker savoury character. Layered on the palate, this wine has a wonderful suppleness and depth of interest with expressive fruit and fine sinewy tannins. The palate shows length and concentration, and while delicious now, there is a definite promise of more with time. Cellaring potential 10-12 years. – Claire Mulholland, Burn Cottage

Perfumed and fragrant aromas of dark cherries, blackberry bushes, spices, wet bark and rose petals. The palate is medium-bodied with firmly integrated tannins and bright acidity, giving notes of redcurrants, wild raspberries, citrus peel and lead pencil. Refined and pure with an underlying power and tension. Drink or hold. 95 points. JamesSuckling.com Nov 2024

A punnet of fresh red berries, cherry bonbon, a little white pepper and spice, floral, with a mint and thyme perfume. It’s medium-bodied, soft and approachable, fine dusty tannin, a twist of orange peel lends some amaro bite, with a finish of excellent length. Kind of pretty and understated. Lovely wine all up. 94 points. Gary Walsh, The Winefront March 2025