Tolpuddle Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022 13.5%

Tolpuddle Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022 13.5%

A very strong year for Pinot Noir at Tolpuddle. There is complexity and
power, balanced by pure fruit notes and cool season spice. It shows
powerful fruit, with ripe red cherry, smoked meat, and olive notes,
framed by fine but firm tannins. Great length of flavour. An exciting
vintage.

The grapes were all hand-picked and fermented as a combination of
whole berries and whole bunches, in open fermenters, with gentle
pump-overs and plunging. The wine was aged in French oak for ten
months, of which about one third was new

2022 Vintage
The coldest vintage we have experienced in more than a decade. Cool
conditions especially around the time of flowering resulted in a
combination of low yields and concentration of flavour. These cooler
conditions which persisted throughout the entire growing season
culminated in great natural acidity, now synonymous with Tolpuddle
Vineyard fruit.

Tolpuddle Vineyard
First Planted: 1988 to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir
Winemakers: Martin Shaw and Adam Wadewitz