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Felton Road 2023 Cornish Point Pinot Noir

$120.00

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The vivacious fruit and spices are present as always, but are perhaps lighter in tone and more exotic. The palate has a savoury tone, which sits surprisingly well with the usual Cornish Point indulgences: luxurious fruit and exotic woods like Sandalwood, even Lebanon Cedar. The tannins are beautifully balanced and integrated, ever present, but never interfering; just contributing to the overall stature.

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Biodynamic, Limited Release, Organic, Red, Vegan
Felton Road Pinot Noir Felton Road 2023 Cornish Point Pinot Noir
Felton Road 2023 Cornish Point Pinot Noir$120.00

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Felton Road 2023 Cornish Point Pinot Noir

Description

Vintage
Spring temperatures and rainfall were normal with
only a couple of mild frost events which were
successfully fought. Flowering proceeded in warm
and relatively stable weather and resulted in setting a
normal sized crop across all three varieties.
December was warm and dry with these conditions
further exacerbated over the next several weeks until
a welcome rain event on February 21. With the
relatively dry conditions prevailing for the previous
months, this event and the periodic rain throughout
March (but still only 43mm recorded), did not
present any disease pressure issues and provided
welcome relief to the warm and somewhat previous
stressful conditions. Cooler night temperatures
arrested the ripening for slow and steady
development. Harvest commenced on March 23,
and fears of an early, hot and fast harvest were
fortunately not realised.
Vinification
The unique gravity flow winery enabled the grapes to
be gently destemmed directly into open-top
fermenters without pumping, with 20% retained as
whole clusters. Traditional fermentation with a
moderately long maceration on skins has extracted
good colour and tannin with considerable depth of
flavour. This wine was aged for 13 months in 25%
new French oak barrels from artisan Burgundian
coopers. In accordance with our noninterventionalist approach to winemaking, this wine
was fermented with indigenous yeast and malolactic,
and was not fined or filtered.

Details

Central Otago, New Zealand

Alcohol - 14%

2023

Volume - 750ml