Iona KROON PINOT NOIR 2020
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The Iona KROON Pinot Noir 2022
Tasting Note
The 2022 offers an array of seductive black fruits that include berries, cherries and ripe summer plums. The palate is gentle yet generous with pure succulent fruit, bright acidity, charming velvety fine grained tannins resulting in a wine that is nuanced, textured and perfectly balanced with a long savoury finish.
Food Matching
Beef Wellington. Roast pork with herbs and fennel.
Tim Atkin South Africa Report 2024 95 Points
Less oaky than it used to be – and all the better for it, in my opinion – this is the kind of wine that wouldn’t look out of place in a tasting of very classy white Burgundies. Focused, chiselled and refreshing, it has notes of oatmeal and oyster shell, subtle vanilla and saffron spices, a flinty top note and a citrus-driven palate. 2025-32. 95 Points, TA, 2024.
The Kroon Vineyard, with its ferricrete soil, is the highest vineyard on Iona.
Winemaking
Grapes were hand harvested into small crates and spend overnight in a cool room. Extensive bunch sorting by hand prior to destemming occurred. Bunches are destemmed without crushing. Grapes cold soak for 5 – 7 days. Fermentation occurs naturally in open top fermenters. During fermentation, the skin cap was punched through gently by hand twice a day and fermentation temperature peaked at 28°C. The wines were transferred to 500L and 300L French oak barrels where malolactic fermentation took place (20% new wood, the rest 2nd, 3rd and 4th fill).Maturation in oak was for 12 months, on the lees for the full period. After aging for 12 months in barrel, the wines were racked and blended in stainless steel tank. The wines were clarified naturally for a period of 2 months before bottling.
Oak Ageing
Time: 12 Months
Type: French 300 and 500L
% wine oaked: 100
% new oak: 18
