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Hester Creek Estate Winery Storied Series Pinot Bianco 2021

Hester Creek Estate Winery Storied Series Pinot Bianco 2021
Hester Creek Estate Winery Storied Series Pinot Bianco 2021

Golden Mile Bench, Okanagan Valley, BC V.Q.A., Canada



Community Score: 4.5/5
Community Reviews: 3
 
Price: $21.99
Sweetness: Dry
Alcohol: 13.2%
 

Drink: 2023-2024

Bottle size: 750 ml
Winery: Hester Creek Estate Winery

Deborah Podurgiel WSET IV Candidate rated this wine as 92/100 with the following review:

Wow! So Fresh, you need to tell it to behave itself ;) Hester Creek Estate Winery’s 2021 Pinot Bianco is dry, medium-bodied with medium-plus acidity: delicately fragrant with spring florals, fine leafy herbs and brilliant with fresh green apple, leafy herbs, fennel, liquorice root, white pepper, citrus and vanilla flavours all playing nicely on the palate. Well-balanced and precisely crafted.

The 2021 Pinot Bianco is produced from hand-harvested grapes mostly from Blocks 4 and 9 of the winery’s estate vineyards on the Golden Mile Bench with a portion of the grapes (30%) sourced from Stone’s Throw Vineyard on Black Sage Road in Oliver, British Columbia. About 85% of the wine juice was cool fermented in stainless steel tanks with 13% fermented in two French François Frères oak barrels giving the wine a silky and rounded mouthfeel. Enjoyed on its own October 2022.
 

  


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