Wine Specs
Vintage
2023
Varietal
Pinot Noir
Appellation
Eola-Amity Hills
Alcohol %
14.50
2023 Lingua Franca La Belle Pinot Noir
New Release
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
La Belle 2023 has light aroma of strawberry, rose petal, and red cherry with red raspberry and red cherry mid-palate. On the palate, she is ripe and hints at sweetness, soft on the palate with mouth-filling flavors of wild strawberries, Szechuan pepper, and roses, offering a silky texture and long finish.
Vineyard Notes
La Belle comes from two blocks of Pinot Noir grown at Lingua Franca Estate. About 90% comes from the medium-deep Jory soils in the bottom of the vineyard with Pommard-type Pinot Noir fruit; the rest is PN113 from a neighboring block, making for a big round mid-palate impressions.
Production Notes
La Belle was hand-picked, sorted in the vineyard, and then sorted on the crush pad, and then de-stemmed by a special sorting machine that yields only intact whole berries. 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 toward 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.
