TASTING NOTE
Dark ruby red in colour. Intense flavours of ripe cherries and ripe beeries with a hint of vanilla. The palate is full and lush and goes on with the fruitiness. The alcohol is nice balanced by the juicy acidity and the mature tannins. A great long lasting finish. A Pinot reflecting the outstanding fruit quality of vintage 2009!
WINEMAKER’S NOTE
The vines grow on Loess soil sites. A lot of manual labour is performed to ensure wonderful ripe and sane fruit, needed to make wonderful Pinot Noir. Intense manual deleafing to gain visual access to the grapes is needed for airation and cutting down excessive fruit during a green harvest in summer. At harvest, we only have skilled pickers who also do intense sorting. The grapes are fermented on their own skins for 4 weeks and are aged in new and used oak barrels for 15 months.
2009 we had bad weather during the flowering season. The result was a naturally bad fruit set we favour a lot. The vines were producing less grapes with very small berries. The fruit enjoyed a long hang-time on the vines to ripen perfectly. We picked Pinot fruits with a wonderful concentrated taste. A great low-crop vintage!
WINE ANALYSIS
Fermentation: 4 weeks, 100% skin contact fermentation, 225l Barriques 15 months
Aging Potential: 10 years
Alcohol: 14,0 % vol.
Total acidity: 5,0 g/l
Residual sugar: 1,5 g/l
Sugarfree extract: 28,1 g/l
SERVING SUGGESTION
roast lamb, roast beef, quails, poultry, pork
