2012 Marylebone Cricket Club, Pinot Noir Vin de France

2012 Marylebone Cricket Club, Pinot Noir Vin de France

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2012 Marylebone Cricket Club, Pinot Noir Vin de France

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Bottled by Domaine Coudoulet, a family-owned business in the foothills of the Montagne Noir, just east of Carcassone in the d'Oc, for the Marylebone Cricket Club. The notoriously difficult Pinot Noir has been coaxed into a marvellous expression of all its many virtues, with a lively nose of wild strawberry, raspberry and a whiff of forest floor. It is a marvellous accompaniment for an ensemble of charcuterie or roasted lamb.

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Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

Berry Bros. & Rudd have specially selected a range of wines for the MCC to enjoy over the coming season. We can trace our origins back to 1698 when the Widow Bourne founded her shop opposite St James’s Palace and today the present generation of Berrys and Rudds continue to manage our family-owned wine merchant from the same premises at 3 St James’s Street, London.

The MCC range includes a marvellous Pinot Noir from Domaine de Coudulet in Southern France, a Chilean Sauvignon Blanc from the premium region of Casablanca Valley, a Picpoul de Pinet from the Languedoc in France that is a heavenly match for sea food, a fine 100% Chardonnay from Burgundy, a classical Rioja which is sublime with robust hearty dishes and an Australian Shiraz from one of the great estates in Barossa, Elderton.

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Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or.

Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.

Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.

The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.

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