Rhys Vineyards

Skyline Vineyard, Pinot Noir, 2022

Name: Skyline Vineyard, Pinot Noir
Brand: Rhys Vineyards
Price: 655 GBP

98/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

97/100

Vinous

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New Release
2022
6x75cl
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£655.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Skyline is a world unto itself. The highest altitude site that Rhys work, planted at the winery on the shallowest of soils and at the highest density. The vigour is so low that it takes, extraordinarily, six vines to produce a single bottle of wine – which is how it manages to combine intensity with ethereality like no other wine we know. Employing 40% whole bunch this year, the 2022 Skyline has a typically beguiling perfume that has us reaching for the word complex multiple times; rocks, flowers and exotic rose notes, and then a palate that has a come-hither sweetness to the fruit, peachy fine red berries with exquisite tannins and a sense of inner fortitude holding much in, that will unfurl in time. What a beautiful Skyline this is – already offering an aromatic splendour that normally takes some years to reveal itself. Comparing these wines to Burgundy is reductive, but if there were a Petit Monts in this line up….

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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

98/100

Matthew Luczy,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Fermented with 60% whole clusters, the 2022 Pinot Noir Skyline Vineyard sits near the apex of an impressive array of Pinot Noirs due to its elevated grace, nuance and alluring exoticism. The nose is composed, deft, pure, enticing and multifaceted, offering another degree of transparency from its esteemed counterparts. While much of the Rhys lineup exhibits textures that can rightfully be called ethereal, Skyline brings this quality into the foreground with magnificent precision and quiet yet lavish refinement. The finish is stunning and endlessly multifaceted, with dominoes of fruit falling alongside perfectly structured, swelling tannins that never approach graininess, juxtaposing the considerably more tenacious but equally magnificent Swan Terrace bottling. If its performance in the glass can be mapped onto its lifespan in the cellar, this should be a knockout for well over two decades.

drinking window 2027 - 2052

date of review 08/2024

97/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

The 2022 Pinot Noir Skyline Vineyard is one of the most complete wines in the range this year. Its dynamic energy, complexity and overall dimension are off the charts. An explosion of heady dark fruits appears first, followed by mocha, lavender, dried flowers, mint and exotic spice. The interplay of intense fruit and more vibrant mineral inflections makes the Skyline feel so alive. I find it constantly changing in the glass, always a sign of pedigree.

drinking window 2026 - 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.