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Lingua Franca Tongue ’n Cheek - Pinot Noir 2019 750ml Can
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Lingua Franca Tongue ’n Cheek - Pinot Noir 2019

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750ml Can
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Category Red Wine
Varietal
Brand Lingua Franca
Origin United States, Oregon, Willamette Valley
Alcohol/vol 13%

In 2012, Larry Stone, the ninth American to become a Master Sommelier, purchased his dream vineyard site in the Eola-Amity Hills of the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Together with David Honig and Dominque Lafon, they founded Lingua Franca in 2015, with the spirit that wine is a universal language that brings people of different worlds to a common ground of shared conversation and shared enjoyment. In the 66-acre LS Vineyard, all farming is sustainable and guided by biodynamic principles as well as by respect for the environment, encouraging a healthy diversity of life. The soils are a mix of Jory, Jory-Geldermann and Nekia and the vineyard a combination of 18 different clones and rootstock. Winemaking is traditional and guided minimal intervention in the winery.

Lingua Franca's Tongue 'n Cheek Pinot Noir is made from Block 3, PN777 where the soils are more fertile, nudging the fruit forward ahead of mineral and structural qualities. The grapes were hand-picked at night, fermented in stainless steel tanks with ambient yeast and minimal punch downs with 10% whole clusters to provide a bit more spice and structure to the luscious fruit quality. After fermentation, the wine was racked into 18% new French oak barriques and aged sur lie for 12 months, then assembled in tank for another 5 months until bottling. The intensity of the 2019 vintage is apparent in the wine’s rich texture, spiciness, and persistence.

Vinous
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Bright ruby-red. Cherry and red currant scents are accompanied by building floral, succulent herb and exotic spice nuances. Shows very good depth as well as vivacity, offering juicy red and blue fruit, lavender, cola and mocha flavors that turn sweeter as the wine opens up. Tactile and focused in style, finishing impressively long and spicy, with mounting tannins and resonating cherry pit and floral notes.

Josh Raynolds, February 2022
Wine Enthusiast
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The scents flowing from the glass-crushed cherries, baking spices and clean earth-introduce a complex wine with blackberry, black cherry, pepper, earth and rock components. The citrusy acids and stony minerality dominate the back palate and carry on through a drying finish. Roughly one-fifth of the barrels were new.

Paul Gregutt, April 1, 2022
Wine Spectator
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Keenly focused and steely in structure, this red offers vibrant cherry and pomegranate flavors accented by crushed stone and dusky spice. Builds tension toward snappy tannins. Drink now through 2030. 200 cases made.

Tim Fish, September 22, 2022

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