Good winemaking focuses on retaining the quality the grapes have brought in from the vineyards.
Careful transportation from the vineyards to the wine press to ensure undamaged grapes; dumping the fruit into the press; slow, gentle, whole cluster pressing. These are the keys to quality. Allowing the must to settle naturally for at least 24 hours until it is clear, followed by a carefully monitored fermentation which will last several weeks, captures the individual vineyard expression in each wine. Bottling begins in the spring after the wines have rested on the lees to retain a crisp succulence.
Our Pinot Noir vinification follows the method of tried and tested tradition: open-vat maceration, maturation in large German oak or small French oak barrels using a mix of barrel ages, bottling after malolactic fermentation and no earlier than 10 months after the harvest.