MARLBOROUGH PINOT NOIR 2010

This wine comes from four vineyards in the Wairau Valley of Marlborough, all giving different characters. The Home Block portion from the Renwick area consistently offers rich dark characters that provide great depth to the wine. The Twin Valleys portion from the cooler Fareham Road area gives us the palate structure that we require, offering fineness to the back-palate. Fruit from our newest vineyard, Ballot Block in the Brancott area, is a combination of red fruits and cherries, and the Byrne vineyard this year gave some lovely delicacy, with slightly more red than black fruit notes.

In the winery the grapes were destemmed before going to small vats for cold soaking prior to fermentation, allowing the abstraction of soft tannins and colour at the juice stage, rather than in the harsher alcoholic stage during and after fermentation. The grapes were then fermented solely with indigenous yeasts, offering a wide variety of flavours and helping us to attain great texture.

During fermentation the skins and juice were hand-plunged on average three times per day. When finished the wine was taken straight to French barriques where it sat for 11 months. The wine was then gently racked, blended, and lightly fined with organic egg whites before bottling.

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