Lingua Franca Avni Pinot Noir 2019

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Taste Notes

Primary Notes: Plums Cherries Rose petals Wet stones

Secondary Notes:

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Wine Structure

Body: Medium -

Dryness: Very Dry

Acidity: Medium +

Tannin: Medium -

Alcohol (%): 13%

Origin & Awards

Origin: Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA

Maker: https://boundbywine.com/blogs/vineyard-spotlight/lingua-franca?_pos=1&_sid=3270246be&_ss=r

Grape: Pinot Noir / Pinot Nero

Fermentation:

Awards: >90 Pts

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Serving Temperature: Best served at 14 degrees

Asian Food Pairing: skewers, summer rolls, roasted pork

Western Food Pairing: Roasted chicken with herbs, chargrilled pork chop

Description

Lingua Franca Avni Pinot Noir 2019

Estate grown Avni 2019 Pinot Noir is focused and concentrated with an overlying elegance and silky mouthfeel. The large proportion of complexly flavored, savory and mineral upper block fruit combines seamlessly with the rounder flavors of Pommard clone on Jory soils. Though the vineyard was still recovering from drought, the fruit quality was nearly perfect, as temperatures were moderate at harvest, and we avoided the later rains.

Hand-harvested Avni Pinot Noir 2019 was fermented with 14% whole cluster fruit. The grapes were fed by bin into medium sized stainless steel and cement fermenting tanks. Pigeage was done traditionally by foot to ensure a gentle extraction of tannins. The fermentation was with wild yeast. The wines aged in 21% new and 79% old French oak barriques for 12 months and four in tank prior to bottling. 11% of the total, PN115 from Block 9, was fermented using 100% whole cluster carbonic fermentation.

The vineyard was recovering from drought so that the harvest again brought in low yields but of excellent quality and intensity. Harvest proceeded with fruit in perfect balance. Lingua Franca Avni Pinot 2019 is our most layered yet, with distinctive fruit sourced from the upper blocks, blended equally with fruit from the deeper Jory soils of our lower blocks, where vines develop round textures and red fruit flavors.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

- 93 Points

Deep, shimmering red. A highly aromatic bouquet evokes fresh red fruits, licorice and Asian spices, along with a smoky mineral overtone. Juicy, lithe and focused on the palate, offering appealingly sweet, mineral-tinged raspberry, rose pastille and spicecake flavors that deepen slowly with air. Finishes with harmonious tannins, sharp clarity and strong persistence, leaving cherry and spice notes behind. - 93 Points

A lithe wine, with laser focus, offering layers of snappy cherry, river stone and savory dark spice flavors that build tension toward fine-grained tannins. Drink now through 2027.

- 92 Points

Drawn from mostly Eola–Amity Hills vineyards, including Larry Stone’s estate, this is youthful and brisk, with a light red-cherry scent lined by oak. The plum flavors have an earthiness that brings the wine to a darker hue, emphasized by weighty and mineral tannins and a barrel element that will need time to tuck into the wine.

- 91 Points

Tannic and spicy, this was foot-crushed and fermented with 14% whole-cluster fruit using wild yeast. There's a sense of minerality that seems to contribute to a drying finish. The berry flavors have a green character that hints at slight under ripeness yet the wine remains complete and satisfying.