Vale Pinot Noir 2023
£29
Red · 12.5% · In stock
Red cherry, Cranberry, Forest floor
Red · Vintage 2020
Old Vine Pinot Noir 2020
£52 / 75cl
4.8 (640)From the oldest vines on the estate, planted the year Marledon began. A small release with real depth, held back until it is ready.
- Dark cherry
- Fig
- Leather
- Spice
Club members first: limited public release
- Tasting fee back. Buy six bottles on the day and your tasting fee comes off the bill.
- Next-day delivery. Order by 1pm Monday to Thursday; free on 12 bottles or more.
- Corked? We replace it. Any faulty bottle, any vintage, replaced or refunded. Just send a photo.
In the glass
Deeper and more structured than the Vale Pinot, with dark cherry and fig, leather and spice, fine tannins and a long finish.
With food
Game, lamb, aged Cheddar.
How it's made
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir 100%, from vines planted in 1979
- Made
- Wild ferment, 18 months in French oak, two years in bottle before release.
- Alcohol
- 13%
- Bottle
- 75cl
- Serve
- 15–17°C. Decant for an hour.
- Production
- 900 bottles
About this wine
The 1979 block is the reason Marledon exists. Eleven rows at the very top of the slope, planted by the family that still runs the estate, on soil so thin that the roots are in solid chalk within half a metre.
Those old vines give very little fruit, a third of what a young vine would, but what they give is concentrated and complex. In 2020 we made a single barrel-aged wine from them and nothing else, and held it in bottle for two years before release.
Club members get first allocation of every Old Vine release. Anything they leave goes on sale here, usually for a few weeks.
“Walking the 1979 block with the person who prunes it every winter is a different thing from reading a label. We joined the club in the car park.”
