Tasting Notes:

Delamere Naissante Pinot Noir is beautifully rounded and juicy showing ripe cherry and strawberry characteristics.

A subtle earthiness followed through with notes of sweet spice and smoke, coming together to create a complex and very drinkable wine.

Winemaking:

The fruit for the 2017 Delamere Naissante Pinot Noir is sourced from specific growers around the Tamar Valley and released under the side-project label Naissante.

Naissante was born from the opportunity to work with a number of interesting, high-quality vineyards around Tasmania

Made using the same approach as the Delamere Pinot Noir, the wine sees hand harvesting, wild yeast fermentation, 30% whole bunch inclusion, hand plunging and matured in French barriques.

Food matches:

The Delamere Naissante Pinot Noir is the perfect match to duck cassoulet with sweet spice!

About Delamere:

Delamere Vineyards is one of Tasmania's longest running family owned and operated wine estates, focused on producing distinguished sparkling (Methode Traditionelle) and still wines from the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay varieties.

Nestled amongst the cool maritime slopes of Pipers River, in northeastern Tasmania, the vineyard was first established in1982 placing it amongst the oldest vineyards in the region.

With 6.5ha of grapes now established on the property, the age of the vineyard makes it a rare resource in Tasmania, and valuable due to the significant increase in wine quality associated with mature vines.

The winery is owned and run by husband and wife vigneron's Shane Holloway and Fran Austin. Their passion for the region of Tasmania, at similar latitude to the Champagne and Burgundy regions in France, arises from a desire to seek out a genuine cold climate that can produce wines of classic structure, combining fruit intensity with refinement, complexity with persistence of flavour, and the ultimate expression and grape and region.

The region of Pipers Brook in the north east of Tasmania enjoys a significant climatic advantage that is unique in Australia, that of a very low variability of maximum temperature.

This stability is born from a unique set of geographical features, the hot northerly winds are cooled by the waters of Bass Strait, while the cool southerlies gain heat as they cross the island.

This, combined with cool, relative temperatures and significant sunshine hours make for ideal conditions to retain delicate aromas.

The frosty and sometimes wild conditions of winter give way to clear, crisp, blue sky days through the growing season, allowing the fruit to ripen slowly and evenly, assuring a lingering acidity essential to producing premium cool climate varietals.