Before sweetness, There is strength.
NOLIN IX starts with green, astringent fruit harvested before ripening when the tannins we’re after are at their strongest.
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🟢 Harvested before sweetness, at the height of their tannin strength
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🟠 What becomes beautiful fruit for the table is already too late for IX
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⏳ Hand-picked in Japan during a 9-day window that comes only once a year
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🧬 From that brief harvest comes the tannin concentrate made to target 2-nonenal