The 3 most outstanding Pinot Noir barrels from the 2019 vintage were selected and left to spend an extra 6 months in oak and blended together. Just packaged with a plain label as it has not been officially released. We sent it to Winestate and it received an extremely good review (5 stars). This wine is complex, concentrated and will just keep getting better and better.
We are ultra-fastidious in our organic Pinot Noir vineyard to ensure the fruit has intense concentration of flavour. This involves much careful hand work to moderate crop levels and expose the fruit to the sun.
The aim is a wine with many layers of complexity. Our approach is gentle and traditional - after destemming, the grapes were transferred to open top fermenters, where they were cold soaked. Native fermentation generally started after 5 days. The cap was plunged manually to achieve delicate extraction of tannin and colour from the skins. Post fermentation maceration lasted for up to 3 weeks to allow ripe fruit tannins to soften, flavours to deepen, and gain complexity. The wine was pressed into French oak barriques (25% new) and aged for 11 months.
