2001 Yering Farm Pinot Noir

Tasting Note:
Classically cool climate, the 2001 vintage has produced complexity balanced with soft French oak tannins. Clean and sweet cherry plum fruit with integrated malty oak and smokey bacon. Fine and complex palate, with good acid balance and vanilla sweetness to the French oak.

Viticulture:
The 2001 vintage produced excellent quality Pinot Noir, very low yield and extended ripening period combined to give fruit with intense flavour. Selected parcels of fruit were hand picked and harvested over 10 days to capture a broader spectrum of flavour from the single Pinot clone, MV6.

Winemaking:
Gently crushed in open tanks, cold maceration followed by frequent plunging of the cap by hand, extracted a rich colour during fermentation. Matured for 15 months in French oak barriques.

Winemaker: Alan Johns
Alcohol: 13.0%
pH: 3.58
Acidity: 6.4 g/l

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