2008 Estate Merlot
Tasting Notes
This wine shows ripe plums, earthy notes, with hints of bay leaf and smoky oak on the nose. On the palate the wine is medium weight with clean ripe fruit, savoury oak and fine elegant tannins with a crisp acid finish.
Food Suggestions: Delicious with char grilled veal.
Harvest Details
Vinification Details
Bottling Details
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Harvest Details
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| Variety |
100% Merlot |
| Harvest Date |
11th March & 11th April 2008 |
| Yield |
2.2 t/a |
| Beaume |
14 |
| Total Acid |
6 g/l |
| pH |
3.52 |
Vinification Details
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| Fermentation |
100% destemmed 80% whole berry - piaged 2-3 times per day - with odd pump over as required, wild yeast ferment in barrel then left to mature for 12 months |
| Yeasts |
Wild |
| Oak Treatment |
Aged in 40% new oak for 12 months |
| New Oak |
Bossuet, Saint Martin, Sylvain |
| Cooper |
J Garnier |
| Filtration |
Nil |
| Winemaker |
Ray Nadeson |
Bottling Details
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| Bottling Date |
27th February 2009 |
| Total Production |
200 Cases |
| Alcohol |
14% |
| pH |
3.58 |
| Total Acid |
6.54 g/l |
