Wine Advisor
Noon Winery, Eclipse 2010
Description
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Deep garnet-purple colored, Noon’s 2010 Eclipse offers an intense, complex nose with a core of ripe black cherries and blackberries over hints of mint, dark chocolate, violets, yeast extract and toast. Full bodied yet beautifully elegant in the mouth, it offers an excellent concentration of fruit marked by crisp acid and a medium to firm level of grainy tannins. The finish is long and layered. Still youthfully taut and primary, it should drink best 2013 to 2020+. Importer: Ronnie Sanders, Vine Street Imports, Philadelphia, PA; www.vsimports.com
About the Producer
The founder of Noon Winery is David Noon (David Noon). In 1976, he started making red wine for a living. Later, David Noon bought a bit of Shiraz and blended it with Grenache grapes to make the winery's signature red wine. He originally named this full-bodied red wine "Burgundy", but it is now called "Eclipse". After that, in the next 27 years, the winery's winemaking technology and wine production have not undergone any changes. The vineyards of Norn Winery cover a total of 16.79 acres, and the grape varieties planted include Grenache, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. From 934 to 1943, Grenache was planted, Syrah in the early 1960s, and Cabernet Sauvignon in the early 1970s. The vines are planted at a density of approximately 1,800 vines/ha. In terms of wine production, the wines of Norn Winery are all hand-brewed, using traditional open fermentation barrels and basket presses, and the output is very small. The wine is aged in oak barrels for 18 months before being bottled without any clarification or filtration. In the process of wine making and maturation, the content of additives and the degree of human intervention are reduced to the minimum, so as to keep the natural characteristics of the grapes as much as possible.