Storm Hemel-en-Aarde Valley Pinot Noir Ridge 2019 060526OFFER ensuring the spirit is fully

ensuring the spirit is fully developed before it reaches a glass

Sylvie Augereau

moved to Saumur

Whole-bunch fermented in semi-carbonic maceration and aged on lees in barrel for six months

The Vina Tondonia vineyard sits on the right bank of the Ebro just outside Haro

Storm Hemel-en-Aarde Valley Pinot Noir Ridge 2019 060526OFFER ensuring the spirit is fullyThe Hemel en Aarde Ridge sits highest, coolest and furthest inland of the valley's three wards, and its Pinot Noir ripens last of all. Hannes Storm's Ridge bottling comes off a cool, stony parcel of clay rich Bokkeveld shale, and it is the tightest wound of his three: where his granite sites give lift, the shale gives density, structure and a savory, brooding core. Time in bottle has done the 2019 a great favor, unwinding it into something layered and