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Delta Vineyard Pinot Noir Marlborough 2005

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Winery:
Delta Vineyard
Varietal:
Pinot Noir
Region:
New Zealand > Marlborough
Type:
Red Wine
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Pinot Noir: Responsible for some of the greatest wines on earth - the exhausted red wines of France's Burgundy region. Pinot Noir is a notoriously fickle grape that expresses its origins like no other. It's a vine that needs to struggle to produce great wines but when it does the depth of flavors that range from cherry to cola can be explosive and the wines' bright acidity and gentle tannins make them approachable and widely appealing,

Winemakers Notes

A mixture of machine harvested and hand-picked fruit was de-stemmed, but not crushed, and tipped into 4 tonne open-top fermenters. Open tops are used to reduce the amount of alcohol in the resulting wines, which in turn helps to give the sort of balance we are seeking. After a 5 day cold-soak to stabilise the colour, fermentation takes place at temperatures of up to 34°C, with frequent gentle (but physically demanding!) hand-plunging. Most of the tanks are pressed at dryness, however around 20% of the tanks are left on skins for another week before pressing to stabilise the colour and to improve read more...

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