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Vrede Pinot Noir
2017
4.2
1390 UAHQPR 1.32Region
South Africa › Western Cape › Walker Bay › WO Hemel-en-Aarde Valley
Type
red · still
Grapes
Pinot Noir
Alcohol
13.5%
Volume
750 mL
Sugar
2.9 g/L
Tasting Notes
· @Garage
4.2Tasted blind a set of 3 Pinot Noir wines. This one was also easy to guess because it was the most developed and combined traits of new and old worlds. Excellent ripe bouquet of jammy strawberry, forest floor, red flowers and mushrooms. Almost perfectly balanced, good acidity level, silky and simply delicious.
Tasted on an event organised by Vasyl Kalinichenko.
· @Wix Kyiv Office
4.5Tasted as part of Na Uzbičči event.
Happy to taste this wine. Even if my excitement affects the score, it does so only by a tiny bit! Elegant and sexy bouquet: ripe strawberry, forest floor, mushrooms, red flowers and earthy notes. Perfectly balanced and simply delicious. Already at the right age to enjoy it. Value? Boy, it's great.
About
Vrede is one of the wards of WO Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, where Hannes Storm cultivates Pinot Noir and Chardonnay on northeast-facing slope. Vrede is low-vigor, stony, clay-rich Bokkeveld (Buck Veld) shale soil. In 2017 Hannes produced 650 cases of Vrede Pinot Noir that was aged for 11 months in Burgundy barrels, 28% being first use barrels.
