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2021 Pinot Noir [03 23]
£213.62 per Case
£35.60 per Bottle
£27.00 per Bottle
£162.00 per Case
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2021 Pinot Noir N114 [04 23]
£415.22 per Case
£69.20 per Bottle
£55.00 per Bottle
£330.00 per Case
Bottle - 75cl
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Hans-Bert Espe and Silke Wolf are two Northerners who met while studying winemaking at Geisenheim and decided to found their own estate in 2003. They made their first wines in a bunker on an abandoned Canadian airfield (hence the name) and have since built themselves a winery based on the same design. They have vineyards with old vines in the villages of Kenzingen and Malterdingen, and produce some of the best wines of the region.
Shelter is an estate just under the radar of greatness. The wines are understated, and need a couple of years in bottle to settle down – even the basic Spätburgunder. When they open up, they are seductive, balanced and pure.
A warm spring in 2021 saw early budding, so a severe frost in early April caused considerable damage, with a loss of 30-50% of the potential crop. A wet spring and summer brought disease pressure, though paradoxically the loss of leaves from downy mildew prolonged ripening, so the vines were able to take advantage of the fine weather in September. Botrytis pressure and the threat of the Suzuki fly were dealt with by rigorous leaf plucking to aerate the canopy. Harvest was two weeks later than normal, in early October. The estate’s expensive optical sorting machine proved its worth, discarding another 10% of their crop, so the fruit that went into the vats was perfectly healthy. The wines are a revelation – beautifully structured and vibrant, packed with pure fresh fruit, full of complex minerality, and with lower alcohol levels than has become the norm.
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£213.62 per Case
£35.60 per Bottle
£27.00 per Bottle
£162.00 per Case
Bottle - 75cl
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£69.20 per Bottle
£55.00 per Bottle
£330.00 per Case
Bottle - 75cl
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