| Dates harvested | 3-8 May 2012 Harvested by hand with rigorous selection |
|---|---|
| Sugar level (Brix) | 19.5-22 |
| Alcohol | 13% |
| Total Acidity | 5.4g/l |
| Vinification | 100% destemmed, cold soaked for 5 days without crushing. Fermented in open stainless steel vats with pumping-over and hand plunging, total period of maceration 25 days. Aged in French (25% new) oak barriques for 20 months. Unfined and bottled after coarse filtration. |
| Date of Bottling | 3 March 2014 |
| Bottles produced | 2,247 |
| Remarks | Cool and relatively wet vintage saved by a warm and dry autumn. 5 to 6 passes for fruit thinning over two months resulted the lowest yield to date (except frosted vintage), 17hl/ha. Painstaking work of cutting the unripe berries through bird net before the harvest helped to get the grapes just ripe in time. |
