Pinot Noir 'Tradition' 2021
Our Pinot Noir is sourced from the west-facing slopes of the Kozier vineyard. This site enjoys the perfect synergy of a warm microclimate with cool soils ensuring a long even ripening. Hand-harvested at just the right time to avoid overripening.
Tasting Notes
A particularly delicate vintage with crisp cranberry, crunchy minerality, sagebrush, with gravity-defying tannins. Influenced by cloud cover and subtle forest smoke, 2021 became our lightest ever Pinot Noir, reflecting our family’s winemaking expertise and deft adaption to our ever-changing terroir.
Food Pairing
Tandoor chicken, vindaloo, fire-roasted rotis. Garlic conflict spread on baguette. Card games.
Terroir
Planted in 2007, Kozier organic vineyard is located on the Naramata Bench, 4 km north of the winery. The 15-acre vineyard is a gently sloping amphitheatre, steeper as it approaches the mountainside. It faces west toward Okanagan Lake.
Winemaking
Cool ferment with quick pressing off skins.
Aging
Fermented and aged in neutral French oak barrels for 10 months.
Cellaring
Aging Potential
6 Years
Drink Window
2025-2027
Technical Specifications
- Residual Sugar
- 1.77 g/l
- Total Acidity
- 5.58 g/l
- pH
- 3.84
- Volume
- 750mL
- ABV
- 13.5%
- Production
- 315 cases