Vinteloper Pinot Noir 2016

Tom declared that all of the wine made from the crew’s training Cuadra would be given to the team members for their own consumption

Grapes: Garnacha

NY and totally dry

Appellation: Abruzzo

have a way of bringing you squarely home

just a touch of oyster shell coming through with aeration

This is superb value: serious regional Italian red wine character without the luxury markup

having had a previous career in industrial sales before taking over from his father in 2001

I needed to know how to work Chardonnay in Burgundy” he says)

This wine perpetually evolved and unfolded over 72 hours

but do take Michèle’s recommendation and cellar some

This wine is honestly kind of a mind-fuck so I don’t know where to begin