Mentor Wines | October 8, 2021

Mentor Wine | 2013 Peay Pinot Noir

 Linden’s 2021 vintage has presented us with red grapes that are “red fruit” ripe, have subtle tannins and moderate potential alcohol. This points us in a direction to make more feminine, poised wines rather than a big, structured, tannic Bordeaux style. 

We have been tasting other wines that may give us inspiration to make appropriate stylistic decisions in our winemaking. Peay Pinot Noir 2013 gave us some insight to a reserved, but complex style that we could emulate to some degree. The wine is still youthful and very satisfying. It would get lost in a blind tasting line up, but possesses great precision and concentration without heaviness. 

As a result we are backing off our extraction protocol, doing gentle pump overs and punch downs. We will most probably be draining our wines off their skins earlier than usual. The wines could become out of balance if we were to allow too much tannin extraction.

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