2020 | Tesselaarsdal | Pinot Noir

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Red Wine: 2020 | Tesselaarsdal | Pinot Noir

Tesselaarsdal 2020 Pinot Noir displays an elegant mid-weighted palate texture and exhibits attractive lifted aromatics of raspberries and rose petal potpourri, orange peel, bramble berries and hints of pomegranates and blood orange. The palate is cool, sleek and texturally very polished with impressively fine-grained sappy tannins, soft harmonious acids and a layered finish boasting succulent smoky wild berry fruits, hints of stewed strawberries and exotic Christmas spices.

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Producer: Tesselaarsdal

Ratings: GS | 93 AK | 94

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: South Africa, Hemel en aarde

Tesselaarsdal 2020 Pinot Noir displays an elegant mid-weighted palate texture and exhibits attractive lifted aromatics of raspberries and rose petal potpourri, orange peel, bramble berries and hints of pomegranates and blood orange. The palate is cool, sleek and texturally very polished with impressively fine-grained sappy tannins, soft harmonious acids and a layered finish boasting succulent smoky wild berry fruits, hints of stewed strawberries and exotic Christmas spices.

Reviews:

• Greg Sherwood: Tesselaarsdal 2020 Pinot Noir displays an elegant mid-weighted palate texture and exhibits attractive lifted aromatics of raspberries and rose petal potpourri, orange peel, bramble berries and hints of pomegranates and blood orange. The palate is cool, sleek and texturally very polished with impressively fine-grained sappy tannins, soft harmonious acids and a layered finish boasting succulent smoky wild berry fruits, hints of stewed strawberries and exotic Christmas spices.

• Anne Krebiehl: A touch of coffee and smoke frames that lovely fresh red fruit that rises with brightness from the glass. With more air, there is a savoury glint of miso. The palate is tender and ripe and redolent with strawberry compote and tenderly depicted ripeness. A lovely rendition of Pinot, smooth, gentle and long.

Producer Information

Tesselaarsdal was founded in 2015 by long-standing Hamilton Russell Vineyards employee Berene Sauls. This wine is named after the historic Overberg farming hamlet of Tesselaarsdal not far from the Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge wine appellation in which Berene was born a descendant of the freed slaves who were bequeathed the land by former East India Company settler Johannes Tesselaar in 1810. Extreme care is taken to ensure this small-production classically styled Pinot noir expresses the personality of the cool maritime Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge from un-irrigated vines and its elevated stony clay and iron-rich soils.