Pinot Noir 2009

Winemaker's notes

This is a typical example of the Grove Mill Pinot Noir style. It is a complex wine with very ripe fruit well integrated into very good quality French oak.

Bouquet: Dark! Great fruit intensity; cheery, berry, plum and possibly violets. Toasty oak and coffee. Complex and appealing.

Palate: Rich ripe fruit gives a very sweet entry onto the palate. Good attractive tannin structure. Good weight and length, making this a well rounded, serious wine.

Viticulture

Harvest date: 20th - 30th March 2009 
Harvesting: Hand-picked
Sites: 17 Valley Vineyard

Vinification

Fermentation on skins conducted in closed stainless steel tanks with pump-overs. The tanks are specially designed to keep air out. Pre and post fermentation maceration, as well as partial barrel fermentation, to build complexity. The wine was aged in new and one year old French Oak barriques and puncheons for approximately nine months.

Alcohol: 13.9%
Titratable Acid: 6.3g/L
Residual Sugar: Dry
pH: 3.45
Style: Complex

Wine & food matches

My first thoughts were for wild pork. The wine will also go well with rabbit, hare, game birds, duck turkey, tuna, swordfish and turbot. And wild mushrooms. Its also pretty good by itself. 

Cellaring

 
Lovely in its youth, the wine will also cellar well for up to ten years.