Michael Hall 'Sang de Pigeon' Pinot Noir 2024

Rather than moulding the fruit to a style, I’m interested in passively crafting the wine with as few material inputs as possible: Hand picking, maceration, wild yeasts, lees contact, barrel maturation and no filtration. Allowing the season and site to show themselves. Slow wine.

For wine nerds like me: A warm winter with low rainfall prompted early budburst. Average temperatures during spring and summer slowed ripening. Hand-picked on the 8th of March, wild yeast fermented in open fermenters, 44% whole bunches. Pressed to barrel and matured for 11 months in French oak (22% new, Francois Frères). Unfined.