Winery & Vintage Info
The Fruit was sourced from Vineyards in South Australia: Riverland, Eden Valley and McLaren Vale. The climates from these vineyards are diverse and ranging from Eden Valley where it has a cool climate with temperatures dropping drastically at night with warm days to Continental in the Riverland, where there are long Sunny days with cooler nights resulting in low humidity which provides very little disease pressure. In McLaren Vale the climate is Mediterranean with warm summers and cooling effects from the ocean.
A very cool growing season led to significant delays in ripening for our Pinot Noir in all vineyards. We started picking in McLaren Vale and Riverland in mid-February, followed by the much cooler site of Eden valley, which was picked in late March. The parcels were picked, de-stemmed and then fermented separately for an average of two weeks. A cool and long fermentation enhanced the fresh fruit character of this wine. Malolactic Fermentation was completed, and bottled in June. No sulphur dioxide was added at any stage.
