Black Bank Hill - Pinot Noir, Lincoln Lakeshore, Niagara, Canada (2021)

TASTING NOTES

Quite dense on the palate with characteristic freshness. Raspberry, white strawberry, watermelon, violets, baking spices, pepper and dried sage.

Sorted, de-stemmed and lightly crushed, and given a wild fermentation. Racked into largely neutral French oak barrels for 18-months élevage prior to being estate-bottled unfiltered 3 May 2023.

Black Bank Hill is a vineyard and craft winery in the Lincoln Lakeshore sub-appellation of the Niagara Escarpment wine region. Based on heavy, clay-dominant soils which retain water and nutrients; the warmer than average meso-climate at the foot of the escarpment is open to sunlight and air circulation, enables heat accumulation and the ripening of grapes such as Syrah.

Taylor Emerson and Jonathan McLean launched Black Bank Hill in 2018, initially collaborating with Cloudsley Cellars for production. In 2023, Taylor was able to open their own facility in Beamsville and continues to produce a range of delicious wines.