Tesselaarsdal Pinot Noir '21
Tesselaarsdal
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The 2020 Pinot Noir expresses clean and lifted wild red fruit and cranberry and red plum aromas with hints of baking spices and cloves. Introducing a long, gentle palate with a savoury minerality. This is a graceful and age-worthy wine with an almost crystalline purity
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- Wine Country
- South Africa
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- Grape varieties wine
- Pinot Noir
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- Wine-food combination
- Poultry, mushroom risotto and grilled salmon
About this wine
Description & facts
Tesselaarsdal was founded in 2015 by long-standing Hamilton Russell Vineyards employee, Berene Sauls. This wine is named after the historic Overberg farming hamlet of Tesselaarsdal, not far from the Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge wine appellation, in which Berene was born – a descendant of the freed slaves who were bequeathed the land by former East India Company settler, Johannes Tesselaar in 1810.
Extreme care is taken to ensure this small-production, classically styled Pinot noir expresses the personality of the cool, maritime, Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge from un-irrigated vines and its elevated, stony, clay and iron-rich soils
- Producer
- Tesselaarsdal
- Country of origin
- South Africa
- Wine Region
- Hemel & Aarde Ridge
- Vintage
- 2021
- Grape varieties wine
- Pinot Noir
- % of grape varieties wine
- 100 % Pinot Noir
- Tasting note
- The Pinot noir expresses clean and lifted wild red fruit and cranberry and red plum aromas with hints of baking spices and cloves. introducing a long, gentle palate with a savoury minerality. This is a graceful and age-worthy wine with an almost crystalline purity.
- Wine-food combination
- Poultry, mushroom risotto and grilled salmon
- Vinification
- The grapes are handpicked and brought to the cellar. 10% whole bunch fermentation. Rest of Grapes are de-stalked and put into open tank fermenters where it macerates for up to 10 days. Punch downs are administered 2 times a day. The wine is pressed off skins and goes into the barrel for 9.5 months. The wine is then bottle aged for 1 – 2 months before it will be released.
- Location Vineyard
- Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge
- Soil
- Stony, clay and iron-rich soils
- Closure
- Cork - Beeswax - soft
- Serving temperature
- 18 °C
- Ageing potential
- Age worthy, for more than 10 years
- Awards & ratings
- 92/100 Tim Atkin
