2016 Pinot Noir

Name: 2016 Pinot Noir
SKU: 2817
Availability: InStock

Vintage: 2016

Variety: Pinot Noir

Region: Lenswood, Adelaide Hills

Pinot Style; a personal view;
The aroma should be fragrant, complex and yet subtle. The palate must be supple and generous but not big. And there must be savoury tannins and acid to balance the sweet fruit. It is not about force and weight but rather the wine should be feminine and gentle, not overt and overbearing. These are the things I look for in our Pinot wines.

$50.00

Tasting notes

Assessment:

Aroma:

Lifted primary cherry fruit with hints of earth and spice. Distinctly Pinot.

Colour:

Palate:

Ripe fruit, complex juicy and supple. Generously flavoured with a lingering, drying, savoury tannin on the finish.

Oak maturation:

12 months in French oak barriques. All from forests in the centre of France. 50% new oak.

pH:

3.61

TA (g/L):

6.2 g/L

Closure:

Screwcap.

Consuming

Serving suggestion:

Best between 14 and 18°C.

Food suggestion:

Ideal with red meats, but can be enjoyed with a wide range of foods or on its own. Being unfiltered, it is best decanted before serving.

Cellaring:

Freshness and complexity with a firm tannin foundation are fundamental prerequisites for ageing any wine and are features this wine. Best drinking 2020 to 2030.

Winemaking and vintage

Winemaking:

Gently crushed into half tonne fermenter tubs, with 15% of whole bunches, seeded with a low level of yeast culture and allowed to ferment. Ripe stalks were ideal to add to the tannin structure in the wine. Plunging four times daily. No chilling. Ferment up to 30 deg C. On skins for 15 days. Pressed to barrel with pressings included. Racked to clarify. MLF in barrel.

Vintage:

Excellent growing season with mild temperatures and few extremes of heat. 1310 Heat degree days in total and low rainfall with just 132 mm of rain from October to end February. An average season has 1270 Heat degree days and 196mm rain Oct to end February. Harvest on 14th March was close to our average pick date of 18th March. Crop levels at 1.4 kg per vine were also on our average. Early ripening, flavour concentration and generally good acid levels are enhanced by low crops because ripening is relatively quick. If ripening is prolonged it leaves time for the natural acids to metabolise and be lost. Natural acids are generally tight and harmonious and accompany a naturally low pH which I believe is fundamental to fine winemaking.

Reviews

James Halliday

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