Jackson Estate Vintage Widow Pinot Noir 2019

Lifted aromatics of brambly red fruits overlay a background of dried herbs, spice and leather. To taste, the flavour profile is a combination of savoury density and rich, ripe flavours, all without losing precise Pinot Noir detail. Tannins are silky and integrated, leaving an impression of texture, concentration and not least, definitive vineyard and southern Marlborough clays character.

Fruit was sourced from two clay bound vineyards in the Southern Waihopai Valley.

Each parcel was destemmed into small open tank fermenters retaining a substantial proportion of whole berries. A pre-fermentation soak averaging 5 days preceded a warm and rapid indigenous fermentation where temperatures spiked between 30-33 degrees Celcius. All batches were hand plunged as per winemaker instruction. Post-primary fermentation the young wines averaged 14 days on skin totalling up to 30 days before being pressed to a mixture of new and older French Oak barrels for natural malolactic fermentation and maturation. In February each batch was gently tasted and assessed before bottling in early March 2020.