"Penned in 2012, James Halliday’s “reminiscent of a young DRC,” remark remains a ringing endorsement for this close-planted site. The 2024 serves as a powerful reminder of the heights this site can scale. Where the 2022 fermented with 100% whole bunches, the new release was complexly destemmed and fermented wild on skins for 10 days before pressing into French oak hogshead barrels, 25% of which were new.
The DNA of this site is becoming ever more prominent. De La Terre is lighter and finer in structure than Serré: a wine of delicious earthy allusions which manifest this year in ripe red fruit swaddled in ferrous- and herb-like complexity. The new release is perfumed and intense, yet superbly sculpted and layered with wonderful, cherry-cola fruit, loads of spice and fine, gravelly tannins. A detailed and savoury Pinot Noir that always sits on the edgier side of Bannockburn’s stylistic spectrum."
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