The Greystone Estate Pinot Noir has generous richness & flavour concentration. Layers of ripe fruit, floral and spice unfold on the palate with a delicate tannin line.  Unfined and bottled on site. 

Over 60% of the vines on Greystone's estates are Pinot Noir and the whole reason they exist on these limestone slopes is to make great Pinot. These calcareous clay soils are ideal for growing Pinot with beautiful finesse and aromatics. There are a mix of Pinot Noir clones grown here that give this wine complexity - like a choir rather than the singular voice if only one clone was used.

Season Notes:

Spring rain cooled the soil & gave the vines a slow start. Flowering wasn’t ideal, leading to small bunches & lots of leaf growth that needed extensive canopy work to ensure even ripening.  Summer came through in the new year with a particularly dry & hot February but bringing the crop into harvest with pristine fruit that had great concentration, but very small volumes. All organically managed and hand harvested.

Winemaking Notes:

The Greystone approach is simple and traditional. After careful hand picking and sorting each batch of Pinot Noir was allowed to soak on skins at ambient temperatures before going through wild fermentation.

It was then gently hand plunged in each vat daily before pressing to French oak barriques after one month maceration.

Each barrel goes through a natural malolactic fermentation the following Summer, before blending and bottling for 16 months after harvest.