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Wine Description
The Story
L’Alchimiste recognizes the magic of transforming red grapes into white juice and again into pink wine. This 100% Pinot Noir wine is made by macerating the destemmed grapes for 24 to 72 hours in large wooden casks and tredding on them, by foot, three to four times a day. Fermentation takes place in old barriques. The resulting wine offers powerful cherry and strawberry aromas with the structure and intensity of a red wine coupled with pronounc...
Vintage 2009
This warm year started with a cold winter and mild spring temperatures. Early summer was variable but August and September provided ample sunshine and warmth contributing to fine grape health. Pinot Noir especially excelled. Grape harvest, of generally high sugar content yet soft acidity, started on September 8th. 2009 is a year of generous wines that showed well early. An apt example of a vintage of the recent era, in which retaining freshnes...
