Rhys Vineyards

Horseshoe Vineyard, Hillside, Pinot Noir, 2022

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

97/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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all 2017 2022

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in bond

En primeur

New Release
2022
6x75cl
EP
£975.00

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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

97/100

Matthew Luczy,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

In contrast to the Alpine Hillside bottling, which feels like an altogether different wine from the regular Alpine bottling, the 2022 Pinot Noir Horseshoe Hillside Vineyard takes the normal Horseshoe rendition and remasters it in higher resolution and more vivid colors. The meaty, red-fruited aromatic intensity and concentration of the regular bottling is turned up considerably. Whereas the standard bottling is more focused down the middle of the palate, the texture here coats the entire mouth equally with vibrant, layered saturation and an initially tight, inward finish that gradually but continuously blossoms and expands. The effect of aeration is particularly noticeable throughout, with seemingly every movement of the glass causing another nuance to appear. It's the richest, most luxurious Pinot Noir in the Rhys stable.

drinking window 2027 - 2047

date of review 08/2024

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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.