Bachelder Les Villages Pinot Noir 2019
The 'Les Villages' series occupies a rung just below the top single-vineyard expressions from Thomas Bachelder, but consists of fruit from those same vineyards, making it a great value series!
Sara d'Amato - Juicy, generous and widely appealing. Cleanly made with delightful brambly bits, finely grained tannins and notably representative of place. Effusively perfumed largely as a result of 28% whole cluster inclusion. A blend of grapes from curated sites in Vineland, Beamsvile and St. David's Bench. Flavours from oak are almost inexistent although the wine spent 16 months in neutral barrels mellowing and harmonizing
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Province | Ontario |
| Region | Niagara Peninsula |
| Producer | Bachelder Wines |
| Vintage | 2016 |
| Color | Red Wine |
| Varietal(s) | Pinot Noir |
The 'Les Villages' series occupies a rung just below the top single-vineyard expressions from Thomas Bachelder, but consists of fruit from those same vineyards, making it a great value series!
Sara d'Amato - Juicy, generous and widely appealing. Cleanly made with delightful brambly bits, finely grained tannins and notably representative of place. Effusively perfumed largely as a result of 28% whole cluster inclusion. A blend of grapes from curated sites in Vineland, Beamsvile and St. David's Bench. Flavours from oak are almost inexistent although the wine spent 16 months in neutral barrels mellowing and harmonizing
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Province | Ontario |
| Region | Niagara Peninsula |
| Producer | Bachelder Wines |
| Vintage | 2016 |
| Color | Red Wine |
| Varietal(s) | Pinot Noir |
| Closure | Cork |
|---|---|
| Volume | 750ml |
| Alcohol | 12.5% |
| Product Code | A017R00419 |
| UPC | 185729000460 |
| Inventory | Inquire (7) |
Tasting notes
Sara d'Amato - Juicy, generous and widely appealing. Cleanly made with delightful brambly bits, finely grained tannins and notably representative of place. Effusively perfumed largely as a result of 28% whole cluster inclusion. A blend of grapes from curated sites in Vineland, Beamsvile and St. David's Bench. Flavours from oak are almost inexistent although the wine spent 16 months in neutral barrels mellowing and harmonizing
Cellaring
Enjoy through 2028
Appellation
VQA Niagara Peninsula
Vinification
Aged in neutral oak for 18 months
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 'Les Villages' series occupies a rung just below the top single-vineyard expressions from Thomas Bachelder, but consists of fruit from those same vineyards, making it a great value series!
Sara d'Amato - Juicy, generous and widely appealing. Cleanly made with delightful brambly bits, finely grained tannins and notably representative of place. Effusively perfumed largely as a result of 28% whole cluster inclusion. A blend of grapes from curated sites in Vineland, Beamsvile and St. David's Bench. Flavours from oak are almost inexistent although the wine spent 16 months in neutral barrels mellowing and harmonizing
The 'Les Villages' series occupies a rung just below the top single-vineyard expressions from Thomas Bachelder, but consists of fruit from those same vineyards, making it a great value series!
Sara d'Amato - Juicy, generous and widely appealing. Cleanly made with delightful brambly bits, finely grained tannins and notably representative of place. Effusively perfumed largely as a result of 28% whole cluster inclusion. A blend of grapes from curated sites in Vineland, Beamsvile and St. David's Bench. Flavours from oak are almost inexistent although the wine spent 16 months in neutral barrels mellowing and harmonizing
The 'Les Villages' series occupies a rung just below the top single-vineyard expressions from Thomas Bachelder, but consists of fruit from those same vineyards, making it a great value series!
Sara d'Amato - Juicy, generous and widely appealing. Cleanly made with delightful brambly bits, finely grained tannins and notably representative of place. Effusively perfumed largely as a result of 28% whole cluster inclusion. A blend of grapes from curated sites in Vineland, Beamsvile and St. David's Bench. Flavours from oak are almost inexistent although the wine spent 16 months in neutral barrels mellowing and harmonizing
The 'Les Villages' series occupies a rung just below the top single-vineyard expressions from Thomas Bachelder, but consists of fruit from those same vineyards, making it a great value series!
Sara d'Amato - Juicy, generous and widely appealing. Cleanly made with delightful brambly bits, finely grained tannins and notably representative of place. Effusively perfumed largely as a result of 28% whole cluster inclusion. A blend of grapes from curated sites in Vineland, Beamsvile and St. David's Bench. Flavours from oak are almost inexistent although the wine spent 16 months in neutral barrels mellowing and harmonizing
The 'Les Villages' series occupies a rung just below the top single-vineyard expressions from Thomas Bachelder, but consists of fruit from those same vineyards, making it a great value series!
Sara d'Amato - Juicy, generous and widely appealing. Cleanly made with delightful brambly bits, finely grained tannins and notably representative of place. Effusively perfumed largely as a result of 28% whole cluster inclusion. A blend of grapes from curated sites in Vineland, Beamsvile and St. David's Bench. Flavours from oak are almost inexistent although the wine spent 16 months in neutral barrels mellowing and harmonizing
The 'Les Villages' series occupies a rung just below the top single-vineyard expressions from Thomas Bachelder, but consists of fruit from those same vineyards, making it a great value series!
Sara d'Amato - Juicy, generous and widely appealing. Cleanly made with delightful brambly bits, finely grained tannins and notably representative of place. Effusively perfumed largely as a result of 28% whole cluster inclusion. A blend of grapes from curated sites in Vineland, Beamsvile and St. David's Bench. Flavours from oak are almost inexistent although the wine spent 16 months in neutral barrels mellowing and harmonizing
The 'Les Villages' series occupies a rung just below the top single-vineyard expressions from Thomas Bachelder, but consists of fruit from those same vineyards, making it a great value series!
Sara d'Amato - Juicy, generous and widely appealing. Cleanly made with delightful brambly bits, finely grained tannins and notably representative of place. Effusively perfumed largely as a result of 28% whole cluster inclusion. A blend of grapes from curated sites in Vineland, Beamsvile and St. David's Bench. Flavours from oak are almost inexistent although the wine spent 16 months in neutral barrels mellowing and harmonizing