Seasonal Central Otago Pinot Noir 2018

This is a wine with broad shoulders yet soft hands that have laid out a fruit feast. You will be greeted with black cherry, red plum, vanilla bean and wild thyme on the nose. Ripe boysenberry and cream flavours adorn a rich and rounded mid-palate that finishes with subtle notes of cocoa and cloves. The use of some whole bunch fermentation adds backbone and a subtle dried herb complexity. Toasted oak contributes savouriness while the tannins assert their presence but are soft and inviting.

From Select Vineyards in Bendigo and Bannockburn

The world’s southernmost winegrowing region with a true semi-continental climate, characterised by high sunshine hours, cool nights and a short, but intense summer.

Central Otago’s vineyard soils are mostly described as "semi-arid" due to the hot summers and dry climate, less than 400 mm rainfall a year

Harvest Method: Hand-picked. Processing: Destemmed (no sulphur additions) with approximately 20% whole bunches for structure and complexity. Fermentation: Cold soaked with the protection of yeast and no sulphur additions, then co-inoculated and fermented with cap turnover three times per day for gentle extraction of colour and tannin.

Maturation: 10 months in French oak barriques (35% new).