HERITAGE Pinot Noir 2019
COLOUR: Deep ruby, very intense.
AROMA: Savoury and complex aromas of exotic spices, dark berry fruits and floral notes. Hints of cocoa and leather.
PALATE: The palate is immensely dense and concentrated with luscious black fruit flavours integrating with oak spice. The wine has an intense and yet silky fine tannin structure, great length and many years of aging potential.
ANALYSIS: Alc. 13.5 % | pH 3.54 | TA 5.0 g/L
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. Winemaking is carried out with a desire to reveal these characters in the wine. The fruit is hand harvested and gravity fed into an open top oak vessel with a proportion of fruit being whole bunch fermented. This was hand plunged once fermentation begins. The wine was kept on skins for an extended period following fermentation before being aged in oak for 14 months.
The 2019 season was full of sunshine and very little rain which reduced yields to very low levels. The fruit for this wine comes from the very top of our steepest hillside at Auntsfield Estate. The cropping level is naturally very low (1kg per vine) from these very old slow growing vines that are exposed to the hillside winds and rock-hard clay.
