2022 Pinot Noir Casteel
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- Certified Organically Grown
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- Fruit source: Bethel Heights Vineyard 114, West 777, West 115 Block 3; Lewman Vineyard 115 and Pommard
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- Harvest date: October 13-18, 2022
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- Grapes at harvest: Brix 23.3, pH 3.15, TA 6.2
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- Finished wine: Alcohol 13.5%, pH 3.39, TA 5.7 gr/liter
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- Barrel aged 11 months in French oak, 35% new barrels
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- Cases produced: 415 in 750ml, 100 in 375ml
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- Bottled unfined September 14, 2023
For many years Bethel Heights was recognized primarily for our limited bottlings of distinctive vineyard and block designated Pinot noir wines from our estate vineyard. In 2002 we took a new path and produced our first Casteel Pinot Noir, a blend of barrels from several different blocks, selected to express the epitome of that particular vintage at Bethel Heights. This is our only Pinot noir that carries our family name rather than a place name, which gives us considerable poetic license to select our favorite barrels from each vintage.
WINEMAKER NOTES
The 2022 Casteel includes five blocks selected from Lewman Vineyard and the Western slopes of Bethel Heights, which unintentionally form a straight North-South line between the two vineyards. This was born of many blind tastings at the blending table, not a conscious choice to pull from a specific vein of the property. It’s comforting to know that the Casteel, in our view the best wine of the vintage, is coming not from our oldest vines, but from grafted vines ranging from 26 to 30 years of age. As we begin the bittersweet process of replanting the original vines at Bethel Heights, there is solace in knowing that we have tremendous material still at hand, and the promise of what is to come from replanting into the future.
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| Alcohol | 13.50% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
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