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Pinot Noir Bona Fide 2020 Crystallum
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Crystallum specialises exclusively in Burgundian grapes: Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, working under ideal conditions in and around the Walker Bay region. The approach to winemaking involves minimal intervention: only local yeasts are used for fermentation. These wines can be described as the true doppelgangers of Burgundy in the most positive sense of the word.
Color
Red
Fortress
13,8%
Country
South Africa
Region
Walker Bay
Grape
Pinot Noir
Producer
Crystallum
Vintage
2020
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Pinot Noir Bona Fide is based on the purity and tension of the Old World, but imbued with the intensity of the New World. Salted cherries, licorice, and marmalade, as well as the sweet spice of nutmeg and cloves, open up in the aroma. The tannins are tea-like and chalky, while the acidity is zesty and fresh, softening somewhat in the glass as the depth of the fruit is revealed.
Crystallum Winery, established in 2007 in the Walker Bay region, is a small, privately owned family winery. The owners, brothers Andrew and Peter-Allan Finlayson, are third-generation Finlayson winemakers and sons of the man who first started growing Pinot Noir in South Africa's Hemel-en-Aarde Valley. Andrew studied architecture and Peter-Allan studied philosophy and economics at the University of Stellenbosch. But winemaking "pulled" the brothers back into the family cellars. Peter-Allan Finlayson - "a gentle giant with a great sense of humor, determined and simple, a great guy" - became the company's head winemaker. Cristallum's first wine was a Sauvignon Blanc, produced in 4,134 bottles. The brothers expanded their wine selection in 2008 to include Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, leading to Crystallum now exclusively crafting wines from these specific Burgundy grapes. "We aim to produce classic wines in a new world context that reflect the traditional, age-old way of working combined with the new vineyards whose fruit we use in our work," say the Finlayson brothers.
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