Pinot Noir is the classic grape of France’s Burgundy region. It is typically described as soft and feminine, with good examples having aromas of summer fruits, such as raspberry and plum, with a hint of tobacco.
Pinot Noir is a light style red with a soft finish and an emphasis on retaining primary fruit flavours.
The oak treatment adds flavour, complexity and tannins to help stabilise both colour and flavour in this difficult to make wine.
Fruit: The grapes were hand and machine harvested from a stoney, riverbed vineyard in the Waipara district of Canterbury in May 2019.
Winemaking: The grapes were fermented in small vats with hand plunging, no yeast addition, aged in 228 litre oak barrels for 12 months, completed malolactic fermentation in barrel, unfined, cross flow filtered.
Bottled: From December 2019
Released: January 2020
Wine Analysis:
Total Alcohol 12.8%v/v
Titratable Acid 5.3 g/L
Total Sugar <1 g/L
Tasting Notes: This softer style Pinot Noir is focused and concentrated, showing a mid red colour, with purple hues and aromas of raspberry, strawberry and red cherries. With a palate of soft tannins, good structure and touch of oak, it has pure Pinot Noir fruit flavours. Ideal for drinking now or will cellar well for drinking over the next 5 years.
Food Matches: Serve a bit cooler than room temperature on its own, or match with roasted chicken and roast vegetables, or with flavoursome fish such as tuna or salmon, or with red meats, especially game, served with a mushroom sauce. Excellent at Christmas time with the ham!
Fruit: The grapes were hand harvested from a stoney, riverbed vineyard in the Waipara district of Canterbury in May 18.
Winemaking: Grapes were hand harvested, manually sorted, then de-stemmed to small open vats, with 15% whole bunches, then macerated for five days pre-fermentation. Fermentation began spontaneously with no yeast addition, skins were hand-plunged regularly, where temperature peaked at 30ºC. The vats were pressed after ten days post-fermentation maceration and the wine placed in one and two year old medium toast French oak barrels. The wine was matured in oak for twelve months before bottling.
Bottled: From May 2019
Released: June 2019
Wine Analysis:
Total Alcohol 13.6%v/v
Titratable Acid 5.1 g/L
Total Sugar <1 g/L
Tasting Notes: Aromas of raspberry, strawberry and red cherries, with a palate of firm tannins, good structure and toasty oak, it has pure Pinot Noir fruit flavours. Ideal for drinking now or will cellar well for drinking over the next 5 years.
Awards:
Peter Saunders, Senior Wine Judge, NZ; 5 out of 5 stars: “Warmly-textured, medium-bodied Pinot, tasting very well in the fruit department and still opening out after two years. Finely-tuned aromatics. A very nice partner to lamb, appropriately for a Canterbury wine! Enjoy when available, into 2020.”
Wine Analysis:
Total Alcohol 13.7%v/v
Titratable Acid 5.2 g/L
Total Sugar <1 g/L
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