L'appel 'RDJ' Pinot Noir 2024

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$48.00

The RDJ is L'appel's more structured, serious release and it shows. Rich blackberry and bright cranberry on the nose, with smooth, lasting tannins on the palate. Well-structured and elegant, with real depth that highlights the Coal River Valley's distinctive character. A wine that rewards patience as much as it rewards opening now. Pair with duck, venison, or aged hard cheese. Drink now through 2031.

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Lappel RDJ Pinot Noir with simple all black label and bold white writting

L'appel 'RDJ' Pinot Noir 2024

$48.00

$48.00

Product specifications

Wine Maker

Bart Johnston & Jess Nuel

Year

2024

Region

Tamar Valley

Vineyard

L'appel Wines

Aroma

Rich blackberry and bright cranberry lead the nose.

Palette

This RDJ has all the Coal River qualities but with even more depth and drive than a lot of wines coming out of the region. That means blackberries on the palate alongside a cranberry-laced acidity and an almost raspy tannin that’s long and fine.

Pairings

Pairs well with duck, venison, or aged hard cheese

Wine Making

From a single site in the Coal valley set on black cracking-clay soils - 25% whole bunch Pinot Noir - wild ferment with gentle daily pigeage - basket pressed to old oak barriques for 10 months elevage - minimal sulphur addition at bottling - 1500 bottles produced

Meet the owners

L'appel is the small-batch project of Tasmanian vignerons Bart Johnston and Jess Nuel, sourcing fruit from standout sites across the Tamar Valley, Huon Valley, Coal River Valley and East Coast. Bart's path to winemaking ran through the Pinot Noirs of Oregon's Willamette Valley and a stint on the Mornington Peninsula before Tasmania pulled him home. The wines are wild fermented, unfiltered and made with a light touch, built around regional expression rather than a fixed house style. Honest, curious winemaking from two of the island's rising names.

Bart Johnston & Jess Nuel — L'appel Wines

Tamar Valley

About the region

The Tamar Valley is Tasmania's oldest wine region, stretching from Launceston to the Bass Strait in the state's north. Its cool maritime climate and iron-rich soils create ideal growing conditions, and the numbers speak for themselves, home to over 30 family-owned wineries, the Tamar Valley accounts for more than a third of Tasmania's total wine production. Viticulture here goes back a long way too, with the first commercial vineyard established in the mid-1800s at Windermere, its cuttings even helping establish some of South Australia's earliest vineyards. Today, the Tamar Valley is celebrated for its Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Riesling and sparkling wines, each one reflecting the region's exceptional terroir and winemaking heritage.

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