Storm Wines

Pinot Noir, Ridge, Hemel en Aarde, 2021

Name: Pinot Noir, Ridge, Hemel en Aarde
Brand: Storm Wines
Price: 39.66 GBP

93+/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

91/100

Vinous

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all 2018 2021 2022

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2021
75cl
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£39.66

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Ridge is the highest, coolest vineyard of the three. The 2021 has a luminous, nervy feel with pixellated red and black berries, snappy tannins and a complexity of graphite, wild herb and forest floor. Owing to the levity of the 12.7% alcohol, Hannes opted to reduce the level of new oak to just 16% this year. A tremendous success, it might even be our favourite of the three. 453 cases.

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GUARANTEED PROVENANCE

Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of utmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

93+/100

Anthony Mueller,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Presenting as the darkest and firmest of the range, yet still with a pale ruby core, the 2021 Ridge Pinot Noir comes from the highest vineyards with which Storm works. Light to medium-bodied and with 12.6% alcohol, the palate has an elegant frame with tart cherry skin flavors that present a tight tannic edge; it still needs time and will be better with food. Give it another year in the bottle and enjoy it with seared duck breast and spiced salmon. Almost 2,800 bottles were filled after resting for 11 months in 16% new French oak with tight grain.

drinking window 2024 - 2034

date of review 12/2023

91/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2021 Pinot Noir Ridge, the coolest of the three Pinot Noir sites, contains 20% whole bunches like Hannes Storm's other cuvées. It has the most floral bouquet of the three: pressed violets, pencil lead, and slightly darker fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with rather firm tannins on the entry. Fresh and saline, it delivers lovely oyster shell notes on the black plum-driven finish. It needs just a few months to cohere fully.

drinking window 2025 - 2037

date of review 11/2023

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Specifications

Country:

South Africa

Region:

Western Cape

Appellation:

Hemel en Aarde Valley

Producer:

Storm Wines

style:

Red Wine

Grape Variety:

Pinot Noir

abv:

13.5%

allergen information

This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.