Pinot Noir Ridge 2019 - Storm Wines

Goes well with veal liver.

The three 2019 Storm Pinot Noir wines are all special wines, on the one hand because they are so full of character and terroir, and on the other hand because there is so little of them. These two aspects - quality and scarcity - are linked. One uncomfortable truth of the wine world is that low yields are great for the intensity of wine. The year 2019 was a highlight of three years with bone-dry soils. Although the vines are drought tolerant, 2019 was the year when stress reached a crescendo. Darwin and Mother Nature are wonderful dance partners. The main job of a vine is to feed its offspring — its seeds/grapes. If you strain the vines to the extreme with three years of drought, they concentrate all their energy on just a few grapes. And when we do our job properly, that intensity goes into the fermentation tank, the keg and finally into the bottle. Ridge Pinot Noir comes from a cool eastern slope of the Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge with stony, loamy Bokkeveld slate soils with low nutrient content.

Allergy information: Contains sulfites