Silver Heights Ningxia Pinot Noir 2020

Silver Heights was founded in 2007 by Lin Gao and his Bordeaux trained winemaker daughter Emma Gao in the Helan Mountains region og Ningxia. Situated between the Helan Mountains and the Yellow River at around 1200 meters up, this is one of China's most exciting wine regions. The altitude gives cooling influences during the summer months but the extreme winter cold means that they must bury the vines to survive the freeze, very labour intensive and expensive. The vineyards are farmed organically and in conversion to biodynamic farming.
Emma produces only 3000 bottles of her Ningxia Pinot Noir which perfectly shows off the cool climate and minerality of the soils. With whole bunch fermentation with natural yeast and aged 50% in French ok and new qvevri, bottled with minimal use of sulphur and no filtration.