‘Hawk Hill’ Pinot Noir 2018
COLOUR: Deep red colour.
AROMA: Splendidly fruited, the immensely complex bouquet reveals Black Doris plum, dark cherry, floral thyme with nuances of dark mushroom and toasted spice.
PALATE: The palate exhibits outstanding concentration and persistency, superbly complemented by silky texture and velvety tannins. Multi-layered, elegant and sophisticated.
ANALYSIS: Alc. 14% | pH 3.6 | TA 5.0
WINEMAKER NOTES: The fruit for this wine was hand-picked into small baskets then carefully and diligently hand sorted to ensure that no less than perfect fruit entered the winery. This fruit was then gently destemmed and moved to tank by gravity. A combination of indigenous and cultured yeasts was nurtured through fermentation in open-topped tanks. Careful use of hand plunging was used to gently extract the flavours and tannins from the skins. Maturation occurred in French barriques for approximately 15 months.
VITICULTURALIST NOTES: Vigour and fertility in this block are very low resulting from the dense Loess Clay and the lack of topsoil. Vines are exposed to the strong hillside winds reducing shoot length and reducing berry size. These vines are spur pruned, then extensively shoot thinned and leaf plucked by hand to retain 18 small bunches per vine. The single clone Able contributes earthy, dense, rich, ripe and savoury characters result from the high mineral Loess Clay soils the vines grow in.
