Storm Hemel-en-Aarde Valley Pinot Noir Ignis 2020 PURYEARSALE or the first press

or the first press

industrial Cape Town neighborhood where Duncan Savage built his cellar

the vineyard spans deep Jory basalt soils rich in minerals and Helvetia loam

you can’t beat BLACK BUSH

silky character

Storm Hemel-en-Aarde Valley Pinot Noir Ignis 2020 PURYEARSALE or the first pressHannes Storm is the only person making Pinot Noir from all three wards of the Hemel en Aarde, the cool, ocean facing valley near Walker Bay whose name means "Heaven and Earth" and which has become South Africa's most convincing address for the grape. Ignis is Latin for fire, a nod to the igneous rock underneath: decomposed granite scattered with round pebbles, on a north facing slope in the upper valley. Granite tends to give Pinot lift and a wiry