Momo Pinot Noir

Tasting note: the nose demonstrates earthy herbal and dark fruit characters with hints of undergrowth. The focused palate is concentrated with succulent dark fruits layered over smoky oak and fine mouth-coating tannins. Vintage: minimal frosts during the spring and perfect flowering conditions resulted in a good crop and even berry set. A warm early summer initially but temperatures cooled after solstice to give a long ripening period with stable conditions until the end of the first week of april. Heavy rain followed but caused no problems at the estate. Vineyard: certified organic fruit was hand-picked from two of our biodynamic vineyards. All of the fruit came from different sections within our raupo creek vineyard where the soils are rich and clay-based. Winemaking: fruit was hand-sorted and destemmed and cooled. After a pre-fermentation steeping period the juice was fermented with wild yeast and the caps hand-plinged daily. The wine was left on skins for 2 weeks of pos