Château Malartic Lagravière 2020 vs Prophet's Rock Infusion Pinot Noir 2019
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. Prophet's Rock Infusion Pinot Noir 2019 currently starts £0.14 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £32.70 | £32.56 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Producer | Château Malartic Lagravière | Prophet's Rock |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc | Pinot Noir |
| Region | Bordeaux | Central Otago |
| Country | — | New Zealand |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
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Château Malartic Lagravière 2020
This wine is offered in its own wooden case of 12. Château Malartic-Lagravière is situated on a high terrace that has been deeply etched by the Eau Blanche stream and its tributaries. It sits on 8-meter-deep deposits of gravelly soil dating from the Quaternary period. The evocative name of ‘Lagravière’ underlines the great quality manifest in the soils of this vineyard, reputed for its location on the finest gravel hillock in Léognan. The freshness and the balance of this vintage combine with the brilliance of the fruit and velvety texture, with a ample yet complex tannic structure, reflecting the true signature of Malartic’s terroir.
Prophet's Rock Infusion Pinot Noir 2019
' The grapes are hand-picked from one block that sits adjacent to Lake Dunstan on the Rocky Point Vineyard in Bendigo. This block is warm and early ripening, free draining, with predominantly schist soils on a steep northerly-facing slope. Extensive canopy and crop management is carried out during the growing season to ensure the grapes attained full physiological ripeness with great concentration, aromatics, and flavour. Yields are kept low and do not exceed 38hl/ha or 5t/ha. The fruit is handpicked early in the morning at low temperatures and destemmed into a small tank. The grapes then ˜infuse' in the juice, gently extracting colour and flavour over 10-14 days. When the indigenous ˜wild' ferment is about to start, the tank is pressed to neutral oak barrels for fermentation. After fermentation, the wine in matured on its yeast lees until bottling without going through malolactic fermentation to preserve freshness. The wine is bottled under screw-cap. Our winemaking aims to be an exercise in understanding and translating our stunning sites into wine as accurately as possible with a minimum of winery signature. This engaging wine has great purity and freshness with lovely structure that makes for versatile food matches. On the vineyard it is our absolute favourite wood-fired pizza wine. Enjoyable in its youth and developing more savoury complexity over 5-7 years from vintage. 273 cases were made. '
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