Black Bank Hill Pinot Noir

Medium garnet colour. The nose reveals cherry, ripe strawberry, rhubarb, raspberry and liquorice. The palate continues with sassafras, blood-orange, loam, pastrami, bergamot, star-anise, clove, nutmeg. Medium-bodied with medium acidity and an elegant finish of plentiful but very fine tannins which slowly recede across the palate. A very fine wine, showing superb balance with many years ahead of it. 

Western: Duck breast with cherry or blood-orange sauce
Japanese: Yakitori, especially chicken thigh or tsukune

Enjoy through 2036

100% estate grown pinot noir, hand-harvested at Black Bank Hill on 2 and 3 October 2023 at 22.3 and 21.4 brix respectively.

Destemmed and lightly crushed for an ambient/wild fermentation.  Racked into mostly second use French oak barrels for 20-months élevage. Estate bottled unfiltered and unfined at Black Bank Hill on 25 July 2025.

About Black Bank Hill

Founded in 2017 by vintner Taylor Emerson, Black Bank Hill is a small, estate-focused winery in Beamsville, on Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment. The winery concentrates on limited-production, single-vineyard wines that express the character of its site, with an emphasis on careful farming, hand harvesting and restrained winemaking.

In the cellar, many wines are fermented with indigenous yeasts, matured primarily in French oak, and bottled unfined and unfiltered. The range spans classic Niagara varieties such as Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, alongside Viognier, Syrah and the Rhône-inspired Liberté, a blend of Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne. Production is often tiny, with some cuvées measured in only a few dozen cases.

Black Bank Hill has quickly established itself among Canada’s most exciting small wineries. At the 2026 National Wine Awards of Canada, it was named Best Performing Small Winery, with its 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon receiving Platinum and its Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Cabernet Franc all earning Gold medals.

What makes the wines particularly compelling is their combination of concentration and freshness: distinctly Niagara in their acidity and structure, yet with an elegance and restraint that will be familiar to lovers of fine European wines.