matthew jukes pinot noir article in vineyard magazine features our 2016 White pinot

Gosh it took me a while to understand, or perhaps begin to understand, the Litmus wines.  

While I am sure I will always struggle with orange wines, perhaps it’s my age or my ‘classical’ vinous upbringing, but the other three wines in this portfolio are as mind-bendingly exciting as they are involving. 

White Pinot is unlike any other wine in the country – it is more akin to a creative, artistic performance as opposed to just a purely gastronomic one! 

Utilising two to five-year-old French oak barriques and full lees contact for nine months, prior to bottling, this wine is built on firm foundations. If only I could say, hand on heart, that this was a white Pinot Noir if I tasted it blind, but I just don’t think that I would spot it. Having said this, I have no idea where I would end up! Densely packed, marvellously bitter and definitely in need of more time, this is a brilliant wine and it is most definitely ‘Grand Cru’ in its aspirations!

Vineyard Magazine, March 2021