Pinot Noir 2023
Tasting Notes
Ruby in the glass. Intensely aromatic with notes of cherry pit and forest mushroom with a touch of forest floor. On the palate, it is dry, medium-bodied with soft tannins and refreshing acidity, featuring flavours of dark cherry, sour cherry compote, cinnamon-spiced milk chocolate, mushrooms, vanilla, and baking spice. The finish is long and complex with a savoury and drying note.
Compelling on its own, it will also complement simple roast chicken with mushrooms, grilled salmon or duck breast. Drinking well on release, but will develop further complexities with short to medium term aging.
$26.95
Price shown does not include HST or deposit.
APPELLATION
VQA Creek Shores
VINEYARD
100% Whitty Vineyard
GRAPE VARIETY
100% Pinot Noir
BRIX AT HARVEST
21.7
ALCOHOL CONTENT
12.5%
RESIDUAL SUGAR
0.8 grams/Litre
Sourced from our own Whitty Vineyard in Creek Shores. After harvest in early October, the grapes were crushed and destemmed before being transferred to open-top fermenters for approximately 30 days of alcoholic fermentation on the skins with regular pigeage to gently extract tannin and colour. Following fermentation, the wine was pressed off the skins and transferred to 1st, 2nd and 3rd use French barriques for 4 months of ageing. Following this, the wine was blended and lightly fined and filtered before bottling in January 2025.
