3 bottles of 2021 Lingua Franca Petit Geant Pinot Noir

The distinctive combination of vineyard and unique Pinot Noir selection in 2021 Petit Geant 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.

The 2021 Petit Geant 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 Geant 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.

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 wine is aged in 20% new and 80% neutral French oak barriques for 12 months followed by an additional 5 months in a stainless steel tank to bring the cuvée together prior to bottling.