Clivo Altura Pinot Nero Le Bighellone 2024 CS20230713 L’Incandescent is a perfect match

L’Incandescent is a perfect match for duck with cherries

Garnet colored

Remarkable clarity

the Pauillac Fifth Growth owned by the Borie family (same family behind Ducru-Beaucaillou in Saint-Julien)

13 hectares of organically farmed Pinot Noir

Clivo Altura Pinot Nero Le Bighellone 2024 CS20230713 L’Incandescent is a perfect matchPinot Nero in Chianti Classico sounds like a joke until you taste this. Clivo Altura farms a tiny parcel of Pinot Noir planted in the early 2000s at 700 meters above sea level, deep inside a 2,000 hectare forest near Castello di Fosini, where it gets too cool for Sangiovese to ripen reliably. The fruit goes in with 50% whole clusters for a two week maceration, then ages in tonneaux and small French oak. Only 1,050 bottles a year. It's an