Weemala is both an aboriginal word for 'good view' and the name of the vineyard in the Central Ranges of NSW.

The 2016 Pinot Noir is bright cherry red in colour and has perfumed aromas of bush strawberry, wild flowers, cinnamon and toast with flavours of cherry, rhubarb, red berries and spice on a bright and complex palate.

VINEYARD:

The Pinot Noir grapes for this dry red were harvested between 12.5° and 13.2° Baumé from the 25th February to 1st March 2016 from 20 year old vines in volcanic soils in Orange, New South Wales.

The 2016 growing season was a little warmer and somewhat dryer than the long term average in the NSW Central Ranges. The season began warm and dry in the Spring with much needed rain and milder temperatures experienced from November to January.

It was the earliest harvest and shortest vintage from first to last harvested grapes in Logan's 20 years. These conditions produced richly flavoured grapes with good texture and varietal characters.

The vines have been trained on a VSP trellis system.

WINEMAKING:

This Pinot Noir is comprised of 32% MV6 clone with the remainder from 114,115, 777, Abel and 667 clones.

Fermentation was in a combination of small open fermenters which were plunged twice per day and larger rotary fermenters, spun twice per day. Fermentation was by wild yeast with 10% of the fruit as whole bunches.

The wine was pressed off skins after primary fermentation with 10% completing malolactic fermentation as well as maturation in French Puncheon (500L) oak barrels with the remainder in stainless steel.

The wine was filtered before bottling.

ANALYSIS:

Alcohol 13.0 %
Titratible acidity 5.20 g/L
pH 3.80
Residual sugar 0.9 g/L