** SOLD OUT ** 2019 Single Vineyard "Champs de Cerises" - Upper Yarra Pinot Noir
** SOLD OUT ** 2019 Single Vineyard "Champs de Cerises" - Upper Yarra Pinot Noir
Upper Yarra Valley, single vineyard wine from a cool site - all MV6 Clone from vines planted in 1997. Made in the same way with the same philosophy as the Appellation blend except with a little more new oak (15%). It showcases the best vineyard and terroir for the season, this wine is given more maturity time on lees in tank to express its site/terrior as much as possible. This wine is bottled by gravity, un-fined and unfiltered.
Tasting Notes
Intoxicating aromas of raspberry, sweet red cherry, Kirsch, cinnamon, clove and wood spice - such a beautiful and intriguing nose.
The palate is textured and fleshy with sweet raspberry and cherry juiciness, there’s a mineral note with cool acidity and fine grainy tannins.. YUM!
Winemaking
The fruit is hand-picked, sorted and chilled overnight to 12 degrees to enable a 5-day cold soak to occur. The fruit is gently destemmed (70% whole berry) and 30% whole bunch is included… It’s then left to commence spontaneous fermentation with the natural vineyard yeasts. The ferment is lightly pigéaged (foot stomped) and hand plunged daily, spending about 3 weeks on skins. The finished wine is pressed straight to French puncheons and barriques (15% new), undergoing natural MLF in its own time and kept on lees until bottling. The wine is in oak for 10 months with further aging in stainless before being bottled via gravity. Unfined and unfiltered.