Rhys Vineyards

Alpine Vineyard, Hillside, Pinot Noir, 2022

Name: Alpine Vineyard, Hillside, Pinot Noir
Brand: Rhys Vineyards
Price: 975 GBP

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all 2017 2022

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2022
6x75cl
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£975.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

The Hillside bottlings (generally no more than 150-200 cases each) are the pinnacle of the Rhys range – and typically require the most patience. But give them time, and the rewards are ample. Alpine’s Hillside block is the steepest and lowest yielding section of the vineyard, home to the massale mother block, and in 2022 it really is a wine to spend your time with. Dark, complex and mysterious at first, with intense minerals and taut shards of fruit, it initially captivates with the mile long red fruit and floral scented finish. You can feel it waiting to bloom, like an early rose bud amongst crushed rocks – and as it does, the hairs on your neck stand on end. The sweet fruit at the core draws you in, releasing more with each approach. This will most likely need a decade to blossom fully – we can’t wait to be there when it does. Majestic.

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GUARANTEED PROVENANCE

Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost 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

96/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2022 Pinot Noir Alpine Hillside is a dark, brooding wine that is going to take a number of years to be at its best. Inky dark fruit, graphite, incense, leather, licorice and espresso infuse the 2022 with tremendous complexity. This big, strapping Pinot offers tons of virile intensity and plenty of resonance to match. I would not plan on opening a bottle anytime soon.

drinking window 2027 - 2037

date of review 11/2023

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