2024 10X Pinot Noir
2024 10X Pinot Noir
An inviting perfumed nose of black forest cake, red fruits, florals, and creaming soda. Vibrant red cherry, raspberry compote and chinotto fill the luscious palate. This is followed by underlying baking spice to give a lovely savory backbone. Well-integrated powdery tannins give structure and length.
Wine Profile
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Other Notes
After a wet spring, the 2024 season gave ample sunlight and ideal ripening conditions across all varieties. Phenological ripeness was uniform and flavours although delayed, were abundant in great concentrations.
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| Vineyards :: Clones |
Vineyard Notes
Coolart Road, Hunts Road, Capella Vineyard, Paradigm Hill, McCutcheon and Wallis :: 777, MV6, 115, Abel, G5V15 and Pommard
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| Harvest date :: Yield |
Harvest Date
Handpicked 4th – 15th March 2024 :: 2.5 – 4.5t/ha
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| Brix :: pH :: TA |
pH
23 – 23.76 :: 3.3.42 – 3.59 :: 5.4 – 6.5g/L
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| Winemaking |
Winemaker Notes
Handpicked fruit was hand sorted and fermented in various vessels across concrete, oak and stainless steel. Batches were cold soaked for 4 days at 8°C before the onset of wild fermentation.
Light fermentation management with pump overs and some plunging over the 14-18 days on skins before pressed off to tank and racked to barrel. Natural malolactic fermentation was completed in place before these specific batches were racked to tank for blending with gentle filtration before bottling.
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| Winemakers |
Production
Imogen Dillon, Martin Spedding
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| Aging :: Oak |
Aging
5 months :: 15% new French oak barriques and puncheons
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| Residual sugar |
Residual Sugar
Dry
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| Finished pH :: TA |
Acid
3.58 :: 6.0g/L
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| Alcohol % | |
| Production | |
| Tasting Notes |
Tasting Notes
An inviting perfumed nose of black forest cake, red fruits, florals, and creaming soda. Vibrant red cherry, raspberry compote and chinotto fill the luscious palate. This is followed by underlying baking spice to give a lovely savoury backbone. Well-integrated powdery tannins give structure and length.
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| Food :: Temperature |
Food Pairing Notes
Braised lamb with preserved lemon and oregano, alongside fresh spring broad beans and peas :: serve at 15 – 18°C
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| Best drinking |
Bottling Date
2024-2034
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