HEART & HANDS PINOT NOIR MO CHUISLE
$56.99
Tasting Notes
Black cherries and chalky minerality on the nose. The cherries continue on the palate along with cranberries and creme de cassis. Medium-firm tannins on the long, dry finish. Simply a beautiful, elegant wine.
- Size: .750L
Description
Overview
Our flagship wine, crafted from grapes grown on our sustainably farmed limestone-rich estate vineyard, which is geologically unique in the Finger Lakes. The name Mo Chuisle, is a Gaelic phrase, and translates literally to “My Pulse” or colloquially to “My Darling”. It is our great pleasure to share this wine: a long-tended dream, finally brought to life.
Vineyard Notes
At Heart & Hands, our greatest desire is to craft the most pure, terroir driven Pinot Noir from our vineyard on Cayuga Lake. In 2007, this journey began with a quest: to find the optimal potential vineyard site on land rich with limestone bedrock. We discovered a narrow thread of Onondaga Limestone along the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. Today, this limestone runs beneath our vineyard, and provides the perfect foundation for great Pinot Noir. The limestone provides the perfect foundation for great Pinot Noir. The soils provide nutrient accessibility to the vines during the growing season while the west-facing slope provides optimal late-day sun intensity. Out of respect for the land, and our environment, we farm the vineyard sustainably, without the use of herbicides and insecticides. The vineyard is planted to seven Dijon clones of Pinot Noir, which are evenly distributed across the upper, middle and lower vineyard blocks.
Winemaker Notes
We handpicked the grapes into small 30-pound picking lugs and then they were optically sorted – each berry was scanned by cameras to ensure that the fruit met our standards for exceptional quality. We included 100% of the stems in the fermentation and then transferred the finished wine to French oak barrels for 14 months of aging.
