Pinot Noir 2007

Dates harvested10-11 April 2007
Picked by hand with rigorous selection
Sugar level (Brix)23.4-24.5
Alcohol13.1%
Total Acidity6.3g/l
pH3.67
Vinification95% destemmed, cold soaked for approx. 5 days as whole berries. Fermented in open stainless steel vats with pumping-over and hand plunging, total period of maceration 23 days. Aged in French (50% new) oak barriques for 14 months. Unfined and bottled with coarse filtration.
Date of Bottling9 October 2008
Bottles produced1,100
Remarks2007 was hit by one of the worst frost and poorest flowering.

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