Penner-Ash Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard 2019 (75cl)

Penner-Ash Pinot Noir Shea Vineyard 2019 is a single-vineyard Pinot Noir from Oregon's Yamhill-Carlton District in the Willamette Valley, made by Penner-Ash Wine Cellars, founded by Lynn Penner-Ash. It comes from seven vineyard blocks planted with Dijon clones 777 and 114 alongside heritage Pommard and Wädenswil selections, on sedimentary soil over fractured sandstone. The 2019 bottling undergoes small-set indigenous yeast fermentation with extended cold soaks. The aroma brings wild raspberry, fresh plum and vanilla bean, then clove, dusty earth and tobacco leaf, with Asian spice and sweet oak emerging with time. The palate is sweet and supple, with round baked strawberry and cherry-pit flavours, acidity, pomegranate, tea leaf, white pepper and shiitake mushroom. The finish is long and silky, with lingering fruit sweetness, fine dusty tannins, tobacco and clove.