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Winemaker Note
“Clear, bright appearance. Pale gold colour. Very aromatic! Nice, riper spectrum Pinot Gris character; baked pear, tropical fruits and vanillapod, also subtle ginger spice and white floral notes. Dry concentrated and intense to taste, lovely texture, quite a full-bodied expression of Pinot, featuring nice ripe flavours and fine balanced acidity. We have been developing our Pinot Gris style towards a dryer, more grown-up style for a few years now. I am very happy with this release, it shows we are heading in the right direction.”
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Following on from the rather wet and challenging 2022 and 2023 seasons there was quite a lot of anticipation riding on the outcome of the 2024 harvest. It was an eventful season to put it mildly! Frosts, freezing weather in the middle of November, poor flowering, a scorching, dry summer and even a large fire in one of our vineyards! Nerves were certainly frayed but in the end the result is what counts, and quality was very high indeed! Albeit on the smaller side crop wise.
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Grown over three different blocks at our Blue Rock Vineyard.
This season all blocks were harvested together. All bunches were de-stemmed and fruit wascrushed and transferred to the press for a nice long maceration on skins in order to extractplenty of the nice ripe phenolics and tannins naturally present in the skins. Following thepressing around 40% of the juice was sent to seasoned French oak barrels for fermentation,with the balance fermented long and cool in a temperature controlled stainless steel tank.
Following 6 months on lees both portions were blended before gentle filtration prior to bottling in the Spring.
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Serve lightly chilled as an accompaniment to delicate cheeses and cured meat.
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pH 3.35
TA 4.8 g/L
RS 15 g/L
Alc 13 %
Bottled Oct 24
