Mt Difficulty Long Gully Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2008
Our Single Vineyard Pinot Noir wines have been created to show specific attributes of each vineyard. This is our third Long Gully Single Vineyard Pinot Noir. Long Gully has always displayed classic red to black forest berry characters and for this vintage warmer blackcurrent and boysenberry really shine through. These same berries dominate the entry onto the palate, and flow in a rich and sensuous vein of fruit through the mid-palate. The wine finishes strongly with lovely fine grained tannin integrating seamlessly.
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Winemaking Considerations
The fruit for this wine was harvested from our Long Gully vineyard between the 8th and 11th of April. The majority of fruit was de-stemmed, 60% of the final wine had 20% whole clusters during fermentation. The ferments typically underwent a period of 8 days pre-fermentation maceration at ~100C. Fermentation took a period of 6 days with a maximum temperature of 350C, the wine sat on skins for a further 7 days till tasting in harmony. The wine was punched down once per day during pre-fermentation; three times per day during fermentation and once to twice per day during post maceration. The wine was settled overnight after pressing and racked to barrel where it stayed for 14 months. The wine underwent malolactic fermentation in the spring and was racked out of barrel in June. The wine was not filtered or fined before bottling in September.
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5.5 gL-1 |
pH 3.6 |
Alc. 13.5% |
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