Oraterra
Pinot Noir 2024 750ml

Beautiful vintages like 2024 risk losing a certain hook, or friction, in the wine. It can make it too easy and welcoming: seeing the forest but no longer the trees.

By picking early, we avoided this risk and were able to retain good acidity and a degree of disposition to provide interest in the wine. The wine is comfortabl, rounded and softly cushioned, moving effortlessly over the palate. 

We harvest all our fruit by hand into small tubs. The fruit is sorted the following day, cold, and fully destemmed into small ferment vessels. We let the newly-filled vessels acclimatise and warm so that a natural fermentation occurs.

An occasional hand plunge helps to keep the ferments happy and homogenous. This way, we also gently extract what we look for in the wine: softness and approachability, with bite-sized tannins and no element too overwhelming. We have to respect that the wine has its own voice, and we need to let it speak.

After 18 to 24 days in the fermentation vessel, the wines were pressed and transferred to large-format barrels of 300 and 500 litres for 12 to 18 months. The wines were then racked and blended in stainless steel tanks before bottling, without fining or filtration.