{"product_id":"rippon-emma-s-block-mature-vine-pinot-noir-mus-2012","title":"Rippon 'Emma’s Block' Mature Vine Pinot Noir - MUS 2012","description":"Emma’s Block faces eastward on the lakefront where ancient clay reefs run laterally through fine schist gravels. Emma’s Block is named after the great-great-great grandmother of the current generation of the Mills family, through whom the name entered into the family.\r\n\r\nPicked by hand into small, 10kg cases allowing the fruit to arrive at the winery’s sorting table undamaged and intact. Picked and fermented separately in 3, 2- tonne stainless-steel fermenters. 27% whole cluster component. Each parcel is fermented and matured apart before blending. The winery’s resident yeast population (non-inoculated) started fermenting on day 4 to day 9 of cuvaison. The ferments reached maximum temperatures of 14 – 29°Celsius. Total time of skin contact: 20 – 27 days. 10 months of new (26%) to 4 year old French oak barrels. The malolactic fermentation went through unaided (non-inoculated) in springtime; it was then racked back into barrel and allowed a second winter in neutral barrels before being run directly into bottle without filtering or fining. Total time in barrel: 17 months. Bottling date: 12th November 2016pH: 3.68 , T.A.: 7.5g\/l , Alc.: 13.8% ,R.S.: \u0026lt; 2 g\/l","brand":"Artisan Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45640207106117,"sku":"RIP12PNEMBMUS","price":245.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/8644\/4357\/files\/23f84f6c-rippon_emma_block.jpg?v=1777951259","url":"https:\/\/artisanwine.com.au\/products\/rippon-emma-s-block-mature-vine-pinot-noir-mus-2012","provider":"Artisan Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}