Wine Specs
Vintage
2021
Varietal
Pinot Noir
Appellation
Eola-Amity Hills
Alcohol %
13.00
2021 Lingua Franca Petit Géant Pinot Noir
The distinctive combination of vineyard and unique Pinot Noir selection in 2021 Petit Géant has resulted in a powerful, rich and nuanced wine that has complex aroma of red rose petal and violets, raspberry, pomegranate and black cherry, black tea and rosemary.
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.
