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Wine Description
The Story
The hand harvested bunches of Foggy Hill Pinot Noir were destemmed, lightly roller crushed and chilled to 2C on the way to the 0.8 tonne open fermentation tubs. There were no whole bunches incorporated into the fermentation tubs because of the high degree of maturity of the fruit from this warm vintage, requiring no added stalk tannins.
A four-day cold maceration preceded the initiation of fermentation. Fermentation took 8 days of daily han...
Wine Information
Vintage Notes /2016 was the warmest vintage on modern meteorological records in most of the southeast of Australia.
The heat summation in 2016 for Foggy Hill was an extraordinary 1439C days versus the last 13 year average of 1200.6C days. The 2016 heat summation easily eclipses the next warmest season in Foggy Hill’s brief life, 1301C days in 2013.
Despite the persistent warmth, mostly caused by warm nights, there were no heat waves and ...
