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Camel Vineyard (Cornwall)
Camel Valley is the largest vineyard in Cornwall and is located on south-facing slopes above the River Camel, midway between the Atlantic and Channel coasts. Crisp, clean, dry whites and fresh and fruity reds are produced, along with a traditional-method sparkling wine.
Proprietor and winemaker Bob Lindo has already won many national and international awards for his wines and is now attracting a wide following throughout the country.
Cornwall
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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A most impressive Blanc de Noirs (if such nomenclature is appropriate in Cornwall) made entirely from Pinot Noir and aged traditionally in bottle for two and a half years, courtesy of English Winemaker of the Year ( more than once) Sam Lindo, son of former fighter pilot Bob….their reputation has spread through the vinous world like , er, a Spitfire.
2009 was , by Cornish standards, a relatively warm summer and the resulting wine combines all the glorious contradictions that make Champagne so great, namely a savoury yet chalky nose and a palate which is both amazingly crisp and refreshing yet dominated by red fruit and a honied and biscuity texture, courtesy of this most pleasing variety.
Simon Field MW, BBR Wine Buyer
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