2019 Adelaide Hills Red Wine

Easy drinking red – medium bodied, red fruits and spice

Vineyard: Coulter and Gower Vineyard, Lenswood

Varietal: 60% Pinot Noir & 40% Merlot 

Planted: 2000 and 1996

Soil type: Clay loam on shale soft rock and sandy loam on deep clay

Picking date: March 5, 2019

Picking method: Hand harvested and sorted in vineyard

Processing: Destemmed retaining 50% whole berries with no whole bunch

Fermentation: Natural ferment in open top steel fermenters, hand plunged twice daily

Time on skins: 2 weeks

Pressing: Free run and pressings combined

Settling: Settled off gross lees for 7 days

Aging vessel: 2000L Slavonian oak Foudre for 7 months, then stainless steel for 2 months on fine lees

Filtration: No

Fining: No

Alc: 12.2

pH: 3.54

TA: 5.8

SO2: 34 F / 50 T

Production: 220 dozen