Description
The vineyard for this wine is Mission’s Cable Station Road block in the Awatere Valley. The soils are a free draining clay loam/loess and naturally devigorating. The block has a gently sloping aspect, free draining soils and dry climate assures a low crop with small bunches and tiny berries with intense flavour. The vines were trained using careful canopy management and picked at optimum maturity. Brix at harvest was 20.6 We used cold soaking for four days before fermentation started.There was a daily pump over regime. The fermentation was fairly warm and fast; peaking at 29 degrees.
Alcohol
13.0%
Analytical data
dry
0.0 g/l residual sugar
5.1 g/l acidity
3.59 pH