Wine Specs
Vintage
2022
Varietal
Pinot Noir
Appellation
Eola-Amity Hills
Alcohol %
13.50
2022 Lingua Franca La Belle Pinot Noir
New Release
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
La Belle is a special Wine Club offering that is made in very limited quantities. La Belle 2022 has light aroma of strawberry, rose petal and red cherry with light red raspberry and red cherry mid-palate. This wine is light and elegant on its feet and with a persistent finish that remains graceful with sell shaped red fruits, roses, and black tea. This harkens back to the original pretty style of La Belle.
Vineyard Notes
Vineyard Sources About a third of 2022 La Belle is from a Pommard Clone grown on deep Jory soils at the bottom of the vineyard. Nearly 45% comes from the Gelderman soils and PN777 fruit, and the remainder is Calera clone that grows on Nekia soils just above the spring that bisects our vineyard.
Production Notes
La Belle was hand-picked, sorted in the vineyard, and twice sorted on the crush pad. La Belle 2022 had a contribution of 44% carbonically macerated fruit to enhance its succulent tannin structure. The grapes were fed bin by bin, not pumped, into a stainless- steel fermenting tank. Fermentation began with gentle pump overs and included one or two punch downs towards the end of the cuvasion. Pigeage is done traditionally by foot. After fermentation, the wine aged in a combination of 10% new and 90% old French oak barriques for 12 months and four in tank, prior to bottling.
