TASTING NOTE

COLOUR: Bright "Bing" cherry.

NOSE: intense perfume and savoury spice. Subtle complexing oak and briary red fruits.

PALATE: Lovely elegant Pinot fruit flavours supported by a 'whole bunch" influence of herbs and spices. Firm acid finish and velvet tannins are hallmarks of the elegant 2010 vintage.
- Willy Lunn, June 2011

WINEMAKING

This Pinot Noir fruit was gently destemmed without crushing and cold soaked for 4 days with 15% whole bunches added. Fermentation followed for 7 days in small open topped fermenters. Skins and fermenting wine were hand plunged each day. Wines were pressed and transferred to a mix of new and used French oak barriques for MLF and maturation on lees. The wine remained undisturbed till blending and bottling in February 2010.

FRUIT: Hand-picked from our Dixon's Creek vineyard, Yarra Valley on March 7, 2010. Bunch thinned to 2.5 tonnes per acre.
MADE AT: Yering Station
QUANTITY: 1300 Dozen
ALCOHOL: 13.5%
CLOSURE: Screwcap

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