Tasting Notes:

Fresh young cherry red in colour, this gentle Pinot Noir’s bouquet shows crisp, ripe red-berry fruit integrated into the texture provided by subtle barrel fermentation.

Its typical berry fruit-dense palate is gently framed in subtle, fine-grained but persistent fruit and oak tannins.

Vineyard Notes:

The Pinot Noir from Bloodwood is grown on the top 12 rows of the Maurice Vineyard where the original few rows planted in 1984 were, and are to be found in the middle of Bloodwood's original Cabernet Sauvignon planting.

Rhonda and Stephen Doyle were anxious to see how the fruit performed without any special Pinophiliac attention. It did very well, so the next five rows were planted at the very top of the Maurice vineyard block.

Both plantings were to MV6 clone, however Bloodwood now have, in addition, a hundred or so each of clones 777; 114 and 115 adjoining the Maurice vineyard.

These vines are all close planted on an easterly slope of 20 degrees in a north/south orientation and Scott‐Henry trellised to open to the western side of the vine.

This gives a bit of added light and warmth to the ripening grapes in cooler years.

Winemaking:

The grapes were de‑stemmed cold soaked and open fermented under natural yeasts with regular gentle hand plunging. The pressed wine was transferred warm to barrel where it finished malo‑lactic conversion, and after 6 months in barrel.

Technical Details:

pH 3.49
Acidity 6.5 g/l
Al/Vol 13.0 %