Précoce

A bright, lifted expression of Pinot, it’s fresh yet structured, generous yet refined

Précoce 2024

Name: Précoce 2024
Brand: Flint Vineyard
Price: 142.50 GBP
Availability: InStock

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Quantity: Case of 6

Case of 6 Bottle

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"The best English red I’ve tasted this year. Light, ethereal and magical."

- Olly Smith, Wine Expert Saturday Kitchen

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"Delicate red berries and strawberries. Refreshing acidity with appealing red fruit and good concentration."

Decanter

"I really like that they’ve not tried to make this wine anything that it can’t be. So well judged"

Wine Anorak

Précoce is silky, juicy, and packed with fruit and character. Layers of bramble jam and white pepper lead into a super-bright, fruit-forward palate with well integrated tannins, and a gorgeously smooth finish.

Food Pairing

Précoce pairs beautifully with things like pan-seared duck, mushroom risotto, or classic simple charcuterie. Perfect for intimate dinners, long Sunday lunches, or an impromptu midweek treat - because good red wine shouldn’t have to wait for a special occasion.

Technical Notes

Grape varieties:
65% Pinot Noir Précoce, 35% Pinot Noir

Alcohol:
11.5 %. No chaptalisation (the addition of sugar to adjust abv) meaning the alcohol comes 100 % from natural sugars. A light-bodied, fresh style that allows the aromatics to sing.

Titratable acidity:
4.5 g / L - super supple, soft and silky. The low acidity makes this wine very approachable.

Residual sugar:
<0.5 g / L means that we've not added any sugar to back sweeten the wine. Any residual sugar comes from unfermented grape sugars. The wine is bone dry.

Vinification

Précoce was hand harvested in October 2024, making up around 65% of this year’s blend with the remainder French and German clone Pinot Noir picked in early November. Both sourced from our Norfolk vineyard and Martin’s Lane in Essex, fermented partially as whole bunches and crushed/de-stemmed berries.

Fermentation took place in concrete, the traditional way, which allows the wine to breathe, open up and soften. We then made use of both indigenous and cultured yeast strains to encourage complexity, and a cool fermentation gave just enough time to gently extract colour and flavour whilst keeping things fresh.

After fermentation, the wine was transferred into neutral oak barrels, between five and seven years old, where it underwent malolactic fermentation. It then spent a further six months in barrel before being bottled with minimal filtration to keep it honest. It’s a light-touch process: the grapes do the work here and it really shows in the character of the wine.

Ingredients

Grapes harvested from Flint Vineyard and Martin's Lane Vineyard (Crouch Valley, Essex). Indigenous yeasts and active dried yeasts. Minimal Sulphites (<35 mg / L FSO2) - enough to protect from oxidation but well within the principles of low intervention. The wine is not cold or protein stabilised or fined with any additions. Vegan friendly.