Le Clos Jordanne Pinot Noir Le Grand Clos Twenty Mile Bench 2021

Typical for this parcel, Le Grand Clos 2021 shows impressively pure, mute but fine stony raspberry fruit, ripe cherries, plums, and dried herbs on the nose, overlaying red currants and red rose petals on the aromatic and dense mid-palate. It has huge drag, and the opulent, perfumed finish is chalk-laden, with wet stone, a hint of clove, and firm, but ripe, ageable, long tannins. There is significant improvement to come: this wine still has much to teach us of local "sense of place," and of the longevity of Pinot Noir from the Niagara bench's most august terroirs.