{"product_id":"2024-frontier-block-pinot-noir-grimsby-hillside-vineyard-vqa-lincoln-lakeshore","title":"2024 Frontier Block Pinot Noir | Grimsby Hillside Vineyard, VQA Lincoln Lakeshore","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eA translucent cherry colour with a solid blue core, a rose-petaled nose of faint sun-kissed strawberries and stronger raspberries – just a hint of clovey, dissolved cocoa (no new oak in this young-vine single-vineyard…) and anise-tinged, deep cherry fruit behind. The gorgeous amplitude of the 2024 vintage shines through from the first taste of the wine: dark-fruited and juicily corrupt, one can sense the sun of that bygone summer, yet the elegance and coolness of the fall in the limestone-infused, slightly rustic tannic finish. We shall have to watch; we shall have to wait for this vineyard to mature… if we are ever to establish the real links between this and the older-vine Chardonnay from the Frontier Block*\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewe have come to know so well from Grimsby Hillside… \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e*\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWill be called Clay Knoll in the next release.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eA word from Mary: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eLovely, generous mid-palate and delicious strawberry finish.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eDrinking prime: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eNow – 2029\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eBest fruit window: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eA delicious peak in 2027 – 2028\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eCases produced: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e95\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bachelder Niagara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49752617779438,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0256\/0648\/8141\/files\/Bachelder_2024_PinotNoir_FrontierBlockLR.jpg?v=1791930547","url":"https:\/\/shop.bachelderniagara.com\/products\/2024-frontier-block-pinot-noir-grimsby-hillside-vineyard-vqa-lincoln-lakeshore","provider":"Bachelder Niagara","version":"1.0","type":"link"}