WAIPARA SPRINGS PREMO PINOT 2008
VINTAGE NOTES
Fermentation: Small open top vats
Oak: 100% French Oak (30% new)
Alcohol: 13.5%
Cellar and Tasting Notes
Each vineyard block was hand harvested separately and delivered to the winery to be put across a sorting table. After de-stemming the grapes were tipped into small open topped fermenters and cold soaked for 6-7 days with daily pump-overs. The parcels then underwent an un-inoculated fermentation with hand plunging twice daily. Post ferment the vats stayed on skins for up to 4 weeks with gentle pumping over until the desired tannin integration was achieved. After pressing the wines went into French oak for the winter and in the spring underwent natural Malolactic fermentation. The wines remained in barrel until racking, blending and bottling in the following winter.
This classic style of Pinot has been produced from some of the oldest vines in the Waipara Valley. Hand selected, de-stemmed and fermented with natural yeasts, the separate batches were aged in French oak barriques for 15 months before undergoing natural malolactic fermentation and bottling in the winter. This fragrant and elegant wine has characters of cherry cola, forest floor and bright primary fruit, ripe tannins and vibrant acidity.
This wine has the structural capacity for a decade of cellaring. Cellar with the confidence of screw cap.
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