DOMAINE NICO
La Savante 2022
- 96 points -
This is a delicate version of pinot noir. Made with 50% whole clusters and 12 months of aging in barrels, 10% of them new oak, it offers tart red fruits and herbal notes. The palate is tense and marked by sharp and penetrating tannins, very much in tune with the calcareous soils that are common in Gualtallary and that tend to give that chalky sensation on the palate. The acidity is fresh and crisp. A pinot noir of tension. Savante comes from a vineyard about 100 meters higher than Histoire D'A, still in the Adrianna vineyard in Gualtallary. It's a 1.45 hectare parcel planted in 1994 on calcareous soils, about 1,450 meters high.
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