Gibbston Valley GV Collection Central Otago Pinot Noir 2019

Description

• French oak
• Fruit cake
• Blossom
• Mineral finish

"A blend of four vineyards, one from Pisa nad three from Bendigo. Fermented with 10% whole bunches. It’s a fresh, vibrant and delicately fruity pinot noir with black cherry, red nose, spice and anise flavours. A taut, attractive wine that is delicious now but may develop further with bottle age" Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review, Mar 2022

Consistent full red colour. Penetrative red fruit aromatics expand outwards; voluminous, with fruit cake, briar and blossom. Crisply contoured sweet red and dark fruits coat energetically to a fine mineral finish.

Drawn from premium Bendigo, Pisa and Gibbston vineyards, GV Collection wines are classically sculpted, pure expressions of Central Otago.

A very high quality vintage, in spite of a severe October frost. Warm spring and summer conditions gave even bunch weights and moderate yields. Benign conditions continued through to picking, with sufficient rainfall to keep vines healthy. Fruit at harvest was in beautiful condition, with good acidity and ripeness.

From the range of vineyards, a mix of fermentation styles and percentages of whole cluster was used, ranging from 0-100% whole cluster. Employing a very gentle extraction regime, the wines spent 14-28 days on skins. The wines were pressed individually, and spent 10 months in French oak, 15% new.