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Wine Specs

Vintage

2023

Varietal

Pinot Noir

Appellation

Eola-Amity Hills

Alcohol %

13.5

2023 Lingua Franca Petit Géant Pinot Noir

This distinctive combination of vineyard and unique Pinot Noir selection has resulted in a powerful, rich and nuanced wine that has complex aroma of damson plum, red rose petal and violets, pomegranate and mulberry, black tea, thyme and rosemary. Calera clone can make an intensely colored and flavored wine, but has very low yields, making these fruits the most expensive to farm at Lingua Franca.

Petit Géant is entirely from Calera Clone with 11% traditional whole cluster, fulfilling the original vision for this cuvée for the first time. It has the most complex and richly textured profile of all versions of this selection. There are heady aromas of black cherry, porcini and rose petal and it is intensely flavored on the palate with without being tannic, with mulberry, black raspberry, wet stone, black tea, and persistent saline and floral notes in the long, velvety and seamless finish.

Wine Profile

Tasting Notes

The 2021 Petit Géant is also complex, multi-faceted, and richly textured. There are flavors of black plum, black cherry, graphite, rose and violet. Though the wine is well structured, the finish is very long, with a texture that is velvety.

Vineyard Notes

Petit Géant 2021 is sourced from the top blocks of PN943 on Blocks 4 and 7. This clone is small berried, like Calera clone, but with a more consistent berry set in spring. Like Calera, it can make an intensely flavored wine.

Production Notes

The fruit is hand-picked and sorted in the vineyard, then sorted again manually on the crush pad. A mechanical sorter then destems the clusters and selects only whole berries for the fermenters. Fermentation proceeds with wild yeast in stainless steel tanks. Cap management begins with gentle pump overs, followed by traditional pigeage by foot, as needed. After fermentation, the wines aged in 20% new and 80% neutral French oak barriques for 12 months followed by an additional 5 months in stainless steel tank to bring the cuvée together prior to bottling.

Food Pairing Notes

If consuming this wine young, enjoy with intense even spicy meats and vegetable dishes like Peking Duck, roasted Duck Breast with crispy skin, leg of lamb Provençale, rack of lamb, Porcini Risotto, sautéed lamb Loin coated in toasted hazelnut flour, quail, whole roast duck (or pheasant) stuffed with chestnuts and wild rice, braised lamb shoulder with tarbais beans, spicy Indian curries, lamb Rogan josh. Or simply with a thick steak seasoned with cracked pepper. At this stage, the fruit dominates the palate, while the overall impression is one of gentle concentration, with lingering bright mulberry and boysenberry flavors, a lifted finish with brighter red fruits, and the scent of violets. It is a wine for spicier meats, like braised lamb shoulder with tarbais beans, pan-roasted duck breast dusted with espelette or Calabrian pepper, rack of lamb with herbs de provence and garlic, or just a good steak seasoned with cracked pepper.

2023 Lingua Franca Petit Géant Pinot Noir

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