Ten Minutes By Tractor 'Down The Hill' Estate Pinot Noir 2022

With a La Niña weather pattern controlling the season, the wet spring and start to the summer delayed bud burst and flowering. Below average temperatures and rainfall over summer allowed the grapes to ripen slowly but evenly, resulting in great concentration of flavour and good natural acidity.

Handpicked and hand sorted and (mostly) de-stemmed (some whole bunch used in separate parcels) this fruit was fermented in a mixture of concrete and stainless steel fermenters. A cold soak for 4-5 days before a wild yeast fermentation with an average of 14 days on skins. The wine was then pressed to tank and racked to barrel keeping all the individual parcels separate. Aged in a combination of old and new puncheons and barriques.