HERITAGE Pinot Noir 2009
COLOUR: Deep ruby/crimson, very intense
AROMA: Dark berry fruits of blackberry, plum and cherry notes, and hints of dried spice and floral violet notes. Complex aromas of dark chocolate, dried fig, leather, cigar box and meaty savoury characters.
PALATE: An intensely weighted wine with great depth and richness from the dense, dark fruit and brooding complexity. The wine is well structured with ripe, fine grained tannins through to the long finish.
ANALYSIS: Alc. 14.0% pH 3.61 TA 5.6
WINEMAKER NOTES: The Auntsfield Heritage Pinot Noir is only made when we feel that a selection of wine exhibits the intensity, complexity, balance and sense of place required to honour the heritage which David Herd has left us. This wine is made with a sense of place. The steep clay hillsides at Auntsfield give us fruit with great density, complexity and tannin structure. Wine-making is carried out with a desire to revealing these characters in the wine.
The fruit is hand harvested and gravity fed to open top tanks. The juice is fermented with wild yeast and regularly hand plunged. After fermentation, the wine remains on skins and gently plunged until the appropriate level of tannin extraction is achieved. Due to the intensity of the structure of this wine, it is aged in barrel for a full 18 months before bottling.
