Wine Specs
Vintage
2022
Varietal
Pinot Noir
Appellation
Eola-Amity Hills
pH
3.47
Alcohol %
13.50
2022 Lingua Franca Novo Vivo Pinot Noir
Wine Club Exclusive
Novo Vivo 2022 is the continuation of the experiment done for the first time in 2020. 2022 Novo Vivo has a remarkable aroma of violets and rose, black cherry, black pepper, green olive and wet stone. Cedar, toast, black plum and blackberry emerge from the richly textured palate which finishes with a long velvety texture, floral notes, salinity and a bright red and black fruit accent.
Wine Profile
Winemaker Notes
A cold and rainy spring led to a late frost that devastated the Chardonnay crop. However, the end of June brought a weeklong heat wave of 95-104 degrees that helped kick-start the period of bloom. July was calm and moderate with little rain. Thankfully, the frost had little effect on Pinot Noir, which has a later start, and less exposure. Bloom came the first week of July, and veraison began on Labor Day weekend, finishing a week later.
Picking was expedited due to rain pressure, with Pinot harvest starting at the end of the first week of October and ending on October 20th.
Production
This wine was picked specifically for fermentation with open top 600-Liter puncheons. As in 2020, only two puncheons, one neutral and one new, were produced yielding a bit more than 90 cases of wine. The barrel stood on end to serve as small fermenting vessels. One was filled with destemmed, whole berry fruit, the other with whole clusters. After fermentation, the juice was racked off and placed in 50% new oak. Hence the new oak percentage is the highest we use in any of our wines.
