Storm Hemel-en-Aarde Valley Pinot Noir Ridge 2019 LD25SALE chasing an acidity and freshness

chasing an acidity and freshness most people don't associate with the region

extra years of maturation boasts a higher strength at 43

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The perfect pour when one glass each is plenty

After one year in French oak

Storm Hemel-en-Aarde Valley Pinot Noir Ridge 2019 LD25SALE chasing an acidity and freshnessThe Hemel en Aarde Ridge sits highest, coolest and furthest inland of the valley's three wards, and its Pinot Noir ripens last of all. Hannes Storm's Ridge bottling comes off a cool, stony parcel of clay rich Bokkeveld shale, and it is the tightest wound of his three: where his granite sites give lift, the shale gives density, structure and a savory, brooding core. Time in bottle has done the 2019 a great favor, unwinding it into something layered and