Dalrymple Single Site Ouse Pinot Noir 2022

Campfire ash and game meat brood in the glass on first smell, before fruit pushes through in the form of plum, ripe macerated strawberry, and dark cherry. There’s lovely lifted spice of nutmeg, cinnamon and white pepper in the mix with tilled earth emerging with air. This has savouriness at the fore, with the spice and smoky nuances making for excellent depth, complexity and interest around the fruit. The palate is equally dark in its tone, with ripe plum intermingling with nutmeg to start, followed by raspberry, cherry and forest floor. Good integrated and silky tannins here, working with bright acidity to draw everything long to an earthy, autumnal close. Lots going on here, and all in excellent balance. A great Pinot Noir.