Bachelder Wismer Parke Pinot Noir 2019
The Wismer Parke Vineyard has long been the source of some of Ontario's most exciting Pinot Noirs. There's an immediacy about the Wismer Parke bottling that's hard to miss. Mouthfilling texture and a core of ripe red fruit make this instantly enjoyable, while the fragrance, structure and length suggest this is a Pinot that will continue to charm even after it sheds its luscious primary fruit notes
Our Wismer-Parke Pinot Noir shows the classic Vineland (as distinct from Jordan) combination of plush richness, tight minerality, and the wild, ‘bloody’ iron-grip of red soils. At once a hedonistic, ageable and yet perfumed Pinot Noir, Wismer-Parke’s vocation would seem to be one of a certain firm, wild prettiness, finishing with a long, ferrous-meets-chalk minerality. Planted just south of Highway 8 just uphill on the Bench, on a well-drained slope on the east side of Victoria Street in Vineland, the Wismer-Parke site is arguably one of Niagara’s ‘Grand Crus’ for Pinot Noir.
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Province | Ontario |
| Region | Niagara Peninsula |
| Sub-Ava | Twenty Mile Bench VQA |
| Producer | Bachelder Wines |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Color | Red Wine |
| Varietal(s) | Pinot Noir |
The Wismer Parke Vineyard has long been the source of some of Ontario's most exciting Pinot Noirs. There's an immediacy about the Wismer Parke bottling that's hard to miss. Mouthfilling texture and a core of ripe red fruit make this instantly enjoyable, while the fragrance, structure and length suggest this is a Pinot that will continue to charm even after it sheds its luscious primary fruit notes
Our Wismer-Parke Pinot Noir shows the classic Vineland (as distinct from Jordan) combination of plush richness, tight minerality, and the wild, ‘bloody’ iron-grip of red soils. At once a hedonistic, ageable and yet perfumed Pinot Noir, Wismer-Parke’s vocation would seem to be one of a certain firm, wild prettiness, finishing with a long, ferrous-meets-chalk minerality. Planted just south of Highway 8 just uphill on the Bench, on a well-drained slope on the east side of Victoria Street in Vineland, the Wismer-Parke site is arguably one of Niagara’s ‘Grand Crus’ for Pinot Noir.
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Province | Ontario |
| Region | Niagara Peninsula |
| Sub-Ava | Twenty Mile Bench VQA |
| Producer | Bachelder Wines |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Color | Red Wine |
| Varietal(s) | Pinot Noir |
| Closure | Cork |
|---|---|
| Volume | 750ml |
| Alcohol | 13% |
| Product Code | A017R00219 |
| UPC | 185729000712 |
| Inventory | In Stock (40) |
Tasting notes
The Wismer Parke Vineyard has long been the source of some of Ontario's most exciting Pinot Noirs. There's an immediacy about the Wismer Parke bottling that's hard to miss. Mouthfilling texture and a core of ripe red fruit make this instantly enjoyable, while the fragrance, structure and length suggest this is a Pinot that will continue to charm even after it sheds its luscious primary fruit notes.
Cellaring
Enjoy through 2035
Meeting Wismer-Parke was like meeting a child I had to ‘learn to love.’ (in real life with our children, it was always ‘love at first sight.’ ;) I had to give olives, beer, brussel sprouts, goat and feta cheese a second, third, fourth chance, and learn to love them I did! Hence, the wild bloody, ‘bit your tongue’ gaminess of Parke I had to get used to - much like Gevrey-Chambertin in Burgundy, which is never my first choice off a restaurant’s Burgundy list, but always a terroir I greatly admire - from a safe distance! Not understanding, I declassified Parke to our ‘Village’ blend for a couple of vintages, slowly & eventually figuring out that rustic, grainy-yet-fine Wismer-Parke character - despite it Not being my favourite expression of the grape - was nevertheless the ‘real thing! I then proceeded to isolate the blocks, the rows, the barrels that MOST celebrated this unique, defining character. That is what stewardship, what élevage, what child-rearing is all about: helping them "get where they are going."
Appellation
VQA Twenty Mile Bench
Viticulture
THE GROWER
Now into the second generation, The Wismer family has been growing grapes on the Vineland Bench for 25+ years. They manage with great prowess - for themselves and others - some 300 acres. Craig Wismer, the leader/genius of it all, is a wine lover with a good palate, a man of passion and commitment, and he and I have been thick as thieves for years in our pursuit of understanding soils, terroirs, clones and viticulture. However, brothers Chris and Ken have brought nuance and precision to already excellently-run vineyards.
SOIL COMPOSITION
Reddish magnesium-oxide and dolomitic-limestone influenced clay soils with a solid silt component. "Loamy textures over reddish clay/loam till." Executive Summary: ‘Reddish, shallow Dolostone.’
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Vinification
Fermentation with Indigenous yeasts; 13,5% alc./vol; 2 g/l residual sugar, 175 cases made.
Producer Description
In just over a decade, Thomas Bachelder has made a name for himself as a producer of world class, terroir-based, organic Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in Burgundy, Oregon and Niagara. With their two young daughters in tow, Thomas and his wife Mary Delaney have unwittingly become wine gypsies, following their passion to produce terroirrevealing wines from these two most noble Burgundian grapes.
Made with intention
They make wines from local terroirs using ‘wild’ (indigenous) yeasts, using organic vineyards wherever possible. Everything goes to barrel for long ageing. The intent is to make pure, suavely-textured wines that sing lightly and clearly of their vineyard origins with as little makeup as possible – wines that are finely-perfumed and tightly-wound, offering the classic refined fruit and textured minerality of the delicate silt, clay and dolomitic limestone-laced ancient lakebed terroirs of Niagara.
A little note from Thomas and Mary
We’re inspired by the love of our spiritual home – Burgundy – where the grapes we love originally evolved, where even the tiniest of vineyards are put separately into a bottle. Our aim is to help discover, quantify and name the Terroirs of Niagara, one-by-one, from west (just outside Hamilton) to east (just outside the “Old Town” of Niagara-on-the-Lake) – and to deliver their energy and their purity of spirit to your glass! Pull the cork and dream of the vineyard from which it comes!
Santé! Cheers!
Thomas & Mary Delaney-Bachelder
“…Bachelder is evidently on a monk’s errand to map out the escarpment with Burgundian-like precision.” - John Szabo, MS
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The Wismer Parke Vineyard has long been the source of some of Ontario's most exciting Pinot Noirs. There's an immediacy about the Wismer Parke bottling that's hard to miss. Mouthfilling texture and a core of ripe red fruit make this instantly enjoyable, while the fragrance, structure and length suggest this is a Pinot that will continue to charm even after it sheds its luscious primary fruit notes
Our Wismer-Parke Pinot Noir shows the classic Vineland (as distinct from Jordan) combination of plush richness, tight minerality, and the wild, ‘bloody’ iron-grip of red soils. At once a hedonistic, ageable and yet perfumed Pinot Noir, Wismer-Parke’s vocation would seem to be one of a certain firm, wild prettiness, finishing with a long, ferrous-meets-chalk minerality. Planted just south of Highway 8 just uphill on the Bench, on a well-drained slope on the east side of Victoria Street in Vineland, the Wismer-Parke site is arguably one of Niagara’s ‘Grand Crus’ for Pinot Noir.
The Wismer Parke Vineyard has long been the source of some of Ontario's most exciting Pinot Noirs. There's an immediacy about the Wismer Parke bottling that's hard to miss. Mouthfilling texture and a core of ripe red fruit make this instantly enjoyable, while the fragrance, structure and length suggest this is a Pinot that will continue to charm even after it sheds its luscious primary fruit notes
Our Wismer-Parke Pinot Noir shows the classic Vineland (as distinct from Jordan) combination of plush richness, tight minerality, and the wild, ‘bloody’ iron-grip of red soils. At once a hedonistic, ageable and yet perfumed Pinot Noir, Wismer-Parke’s vocation would seem to be one of a certain firm, wild prettiness, finishing with a long, ferrous-meets-chalk minerality. Planted just south of Highway 8 just uphill on the Bench, on a well-drained slope on the east side of Victoria Street in Vineland, the Wismer-Parke site is arguably one of Niagara’s ‘Grand Crus’ for Pinot Noir.
The Wismer Parke Vineyard has long been the source of some of Ontario's most exciting Pinot Noirs. There's an immediacy about the Wismer Parke bottling that's hard to miss. Mouthfilling texture and a core of ripe red fruit make this instantly enjoyable, while the fragrance, structure and length suggest this is a Pinot that will continue to charm even after it sheds its luscious primary fruit notes
Our Wismer-Parke Pinot Noir shows the classic Vineland (as distinct from Jordan) combination of plush richness, tight minerality, and the wild, ‘bloody’ iron-grip of red soils. At once a hedonistic, ageable and yet perfumed Pinot Noir, Wismer-Parke’s vocation would seem to be one of a certain firm, wild prettiness, finishing with a long, ferrous-meets-chalk minerality. Planted just south of Highway 8 just uphill on the Bench, on a well-drained slope on the east side of Victoria Street in Vineland, the Wismer-Parke site is arguably one of Niagara’s ‘Grand Crus’ for Pinot Noir.
The Wismer Parke Vineyard has long been the source of some of Ontario's most exciting Pinot Noirs. There's an immediacy about the Wismer Parke bottling that's hard to miss. Mouthfilling texture and a core of ripe red fruit make this instantly enjoyable, while the fragrance, structure and length suggest this is a Pinot that will continue to charm even after it sheds its luscious primary fruit notes
Our Wismer-Parke Pinot Noir shows the classic Vineland (as distinct from Jordan) combination of plush richness, tight minerality, and the wild, ‘bloody’ iron-grip of red soils. At once a hedonistic, ageable and yet perfumed Pinot Noir, Wismer-Parke’s vocation would seem to be one of a certain firm, wild prettiness, finishing with a long, ferrous-meets-chalk minerality. Planted just south of Highway 8 just uphill on the Bench, on a well-drained slope on the east side of Victoria Street in Vineland, the Wismer-Parke site is arguably one of Niagara’s ‘Grand Crus’ for Pinot Noir.
The Wismer Parke Vineyard has long been the source of some of Ontario's most exciting Pinot Noirs. There's an immediacy about the Wismer Parke bottling that's hard to miss. Mouthfilling texture and a core of ripe red fruit make this instantly enjoyable, while the fragrance, structure and length suggest this is a Pinot that will continue to charm even after it sheds its luscious primary fruit notes
Our Wismer-Parke Pinot Noir shows the classic Vineland (as distinct from Jordan) combination of plush richness, tight minerality, and the wild, ‘bloody’ iron-grip of red soils. At once a hedonistic, ageable and yet perfumed Pinot Noir, Wismer-Parke’s vocation would seem to be one of a certain firm, wild prettiness, finishing with a long, ferrous-meets-chalk minerality. Planted just south of Highway 8 just uphill on the Bench, on a well-drained slope on the east side of Victoria Street in Vineland, the Wismer-Parke site is arguably one of Niagara’s ‘Grand Crus’ for Pinot Noir.
The Wismer Parke Vineyard has long been the source of some of Ontario's most exciting Pinot Noirs. There's an immediacy about the Wismer Parke bottling that's hard to miss. Mouthfilling texture and a core of ripe red fruit make this instantly enjoyable, while the fragrance, structure and length suggest this is a Pinot that will continue to charm even after it sheds its luscious primary fruit notes
Our Wismer-Parke Pinot Noir shows the classic Vineland (as distinct from Jordan) combination of plush richness, tight minerality, and the wild, ‘bloody’ iron-grip of red soils. At once a hedonistic, ageable and yet perfumed Pinot Noir, Wismer-Parke’s vocation would seem to be one of a certain firm, wild prettiness, finishing with a long, ferrous-meets-chalk minerality. Planted just south of Highway 8 just uphill on the Bench, on a well-drained slope on the east side of Victoria Street in Vineland, the Wismer-Parke site is arguably one of Niagara’s ‘Grand Crus’ for Pinot Noir.
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Our Wismer-Parke Pinot Noir shows the classic Vineland (as distinct from Jordan) combination of plush richness, tight minerality, and the wild, ‘bloody’ iron-grip of red soils. At once a hedonistic, ageable and yet perfumed Pinot Noir, Wismer-Parke’s vocation would seem to be one of a certain firm, wild prettiness, finishing with a long, ferrous-meets-chalk minerality. Planted just south of Highway 8 just uphill on the Bench, on a well-drained slope on the east side of Victoria Street in Vineland, the Wismer-Parke site is arguably one of Niagara’s ‘Grand Crus’ for Pinot Noir.
The Wismer Parke Vineyard has long been the source of some of Ontario's most exciting Pinot Noirs. There's an immediacy about the Wismer Parke bottling that's hard to miss. Mouthfilling texture and a core of ripe red fruit make this instantly enjoyable, while the fragrance, structure and length suggest this is a Pinot that will continue to charm even after it sheds its luscious primary fruit notes
Our Wismer-Parke Pinot Noir shows the classic Vineland (as distinct from Jordan) combination of plush richness, tight minerality, and the wild, ‘bloody’ iron-grip of red soils. At once a hedonistic, ageable and yet perfumed Pinot Noir, Wismer-Parke’s vocation would seem to be one of a certain firm, wild prettiness, finishing with a long, ferrous-meets-chalk minerality. Planted just south of Highway 8 just uphill on the Bench, on a well-drained slope on the east side of Victoria Street in Vineland, the Wismer-Parke site is arguably one of Niagara’s ‘Grand Crus’ for Pinot Noir.
The Wismer Parke Vineyard has long been the source of some of Ontario's most exciting Pinot Noirs. There's an immediacy about the Wismer Parke bottling that's hard to miss. Mouthfilling texture and a core of ripe red fruit make this instantly enjoyable, while the fragrance, structure and length suggest this is a Pinot that will continue to charm even after it sheds its luscious primary fruit notes
Our Wismer-Parke Pinot Noir shows the classic Vineland (as distinct from Jordan) combination of plush richness, tight minerality, and the wild, ‘bloody’ iron-grip of red soils. At once a hedonistic, ageable and yet perfumed Pinot Noir, Wismer-Parke’s vocation would seem to be one of a certain firm, wild prettiness, finishing with a long, ferrous-meets-chalk minerality. Planted just south of Highway 8 just uphill on the Bench, on a well-drained slope on the east side of Victoria Street in Vineland, the Wismer-Parke site is arguably one of Niagara’s ‘Grand Crus’ for Pinot Noir.