Bencze Atlas Pinot Noir 2021 750ml

This wine represents a selection of grapes grown on the higher part of the vineyard where the soil is rockier and well-drained, to make a high-end Pinot Noir cuvée.

Grapes: Pinot Noir

Vineyard: Rókalyuki. Clay, sand, sandstone with some basalt lying on limestone-chalk subsoil. Planted in 1999. Estate-owned and biodynamically farmed by István himself (Demeter-certified)

Making of: hand harvest. 60% whole-bunch fermentation in open vessels for 10 days, then taken to the press by baskets, racked by gravity to used 2500L Austrian wooden cask, where it was aged for 1 year on the lees. The wine is bottled without fining or filtration and zero sulfur is added.

Personality: charming, layered and concentrated take on Pinot Noir with its typical elegant perfume and pronounced tannins, made for aging.

-Jenny and Francois Selections