A LONG VINTAGE
In few words, it was a long vintage, well spread in time. The maturities were less quickly obtained than usual, mainly due to differences between night and day temperatures particularly well marked this year (the more extreme day went from -0.8degrees at night to +25degrees the day after).
A FRESH AND BALANCED VINTAGE
It is going to be a fresh vintage, with very linked aromatic and analytic maturities: good sugars, acidity and aromas - good balances.
A NEW HARVESTING SYSTEM
With our new winery on site, and new harvest trailers that separate the juice from the fruit during transport, the harvest was really quickly processed at the winery. This enables us to keep a nice finesse as we can avoid skin contact on the sauvignon.
SHORT MACERATIONS AND NICE ROUNDNESS
On the pinot noir, this year macerations goes quite quickly as well. Between crushing to driaing, it takes around 3 weeks. Long macerations are not necessary. One particularity this year, is that the roundness of tannins seem to be coming quite rapidly and nicely.
A GREAT TEAM
Despite the long hours, the team has been working hard, but always with the smile and with passion. Fantastic to live!
1 comment:
Dear person in charge,
Im holding working holiday visa and will arrive NZ on march this year. i love wine so much and would like to apply a job in your company,the family New Zealand's winery, i believe learning wine making experience will be wonderful memories in my life. This is that any vacancies?I willing to learn everything in this new environment. I'm Malaysian chinese.
Look forward to your reply, my email address is lilinlala@yahoo.com. Thank you very much.
Yours Sincerely,
Lily
26/2/2010
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