Pinot Noir Hirsch Vineyard, Littorai 2021

Ripe strawberries with flowers on the nose. Medium-bodied with firm and tight tannins and a linear and fine finish. Slightly one-dimensional now but will come around nicely as it opens. Try after 2026.

The 2021 Pinot Noir Hirsch Vineyard, from vines planted in 1995, is impressively detailed and complex. Initial flinty tones give way to blueberries, blackberries, lavender, conifer forest, iron, blood orange and aniseed aromas. The medium-bodied palate is equally stunning with its generous layers of nuanced fruit. It has a particularly harmonious frame of velvety tannins and mouthwatering acidity and a very long, spicy finish. 373 cases were made. Drink: 2025-2035

Pale ruby in colour. Shy, with a benign funk and earthiness. Bright, super-fresh acid. Not as much fruit density as the rest of the portfolio. Lovely lightweight texture. Drink: 2026-2040