Viticulture Vineyard: Soils: Harvest Date: Brix at Harvest: Clones: Winemaker:

Olssen's Garden Vineyard Lochar 12/04/07 - 21/04/07 26 10/5, 5 and Lincoln Matt Connell

Winemaking Residual Sugar: pH: T.A: Alc: Closure: Cellaring

less than 1 g/L 3.55 6.6 g/L 14.6% Cork 2 to 8 years

Winemakers notes Harvest 2007 saw fruit with a degree of desiccation, resulting in sugars climbing without matching flavour intensity. To combat this, we continued to hang out our grapes with the knowledge that the alcohol level would be naturally higher but the flavour intensity would also increase. Handpicked grapes were destemmed but not crushed. They then underwent a five day cold soak to aid colour and flavour extraction prior to fermentation. After a fermentation of around seven days the wine was left on skins for a further seven days until optimum tannin integration was reached. The wine was then gently pressed off skins and drained to 228 litre French barrels of which 37% were new. The wine then underwent malolactic fermentation in barrel and was left to mature for ten months before being racked from barrel, blended and lightly filtered. The resulting wine was bottled on 20 /2/ 08 .

Wine description A powerful wine with strong plum, cherry and thyme flavours supported by classy oak on the palate. Awards Gold Royal Easter Show, Cuisine 5 stars, Winestate 5 stars and finalist in the Winestate Pinot noir 2008 and Tri Nation