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Wine Description
The Story
APPELLATION: Yarra Valley
VINEYARDS: Applejack, Primavera, Sexton, Tarraford, Wombat Creek
VARIETAL: 100% Pinot Noir
VINIFICATION:
Natural winemaking philosophy, while making quality the priority. Minimal intervention in the vineyard and 100% hand-picked.
Fermented in 4000L open oak vats and stainless steel fermenters using indigenous yeasts. 20% whole bunch.
Delestage by gravity, some light hand plunges and pigeage.
100% malolactic ...
Wine Information
Alc/Vol (%): 13.5
TA (g/L): 6.56
pH: 3.49
CELLARING: Now - six years
SEASON: 2017 really was a sensational vintage! Good intermittent rainfall with cool to mild temperatures, and not a day over 40 degrees during the summer months marked 2017 out as a classic cool climate vintage. All varieties came in later than average, ripening at an unhurried pace in these ideal growing conditions, producing wines of incredible structure, detail and l...
Vintage 2017
AUSTRALIA VINTAGE REPORT: The 2017 winegrape crush is estimated to be 1.93 million tonnes, based on responses received by the Wine Sector Survey 2017. This crush is 5 per cent higher than the 2016 final crush figure of 1.84 million tonnes (Department of Agriculture and Water Resources – Levies recorded figure). It is the third consecutive vintage where the tonnes crushed have increased.
Additional tonnes this year came relatively equally fr...
