2007 Home Pinot Noir

VINEYARD: Our first Home Vineyard Pinot Noir, the fruit for this wine comes exclusively from the lower terraces of the Seresin Home Vineyard. The vineyard is made up of a variety of Waimakiriri type soils of alluvial origin with free draining basalt pebbles. Each vine is thinned to carry one bunch per shoot. The fruit was hand-picked in earlyv April.

CLONE: 115

VINIFICATION: The fruit was hand-sorted before being de-stemmed and cooled, after a pre-fermentation soaking period the juice was allowed to warm and fermentation started with wild yeast. During fermentation the caps were hand-plunged daily. The wine was then left to sit on skins for two weeks for post ferment maceration; a total of three and a half weeks was spent in contact with the skins. The small volume of wine was then drained and lightly pressed before being transferred to three French barriques, approximately 30% new. The Home Pinot Noir went through natural malolactic fermentation during fifteen months spent maturing in barrel, before being bottled unfiltered and without fining.

The finished wine has an alcohol of 13.5 percent, pH of 3.72, and 6.82g/L titratable acid.

WINEMAKER'S NOTES: The nose is rich with aromas of cassis layered over game and fresh herbal notes. The palate exhibits intense fruit, with dark cherry, raspberry, and blackberry, as well as cigar box and spice notes.

CELLARING POTENTIAL: Enjoyable now but this wine will only improve over the next five to ten years.

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