Rippon Pinot Noir 'Tinker’s Field' Mature Vine 2011
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Fruit Handling: Picked 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 10, 2-tonne stainless-steel fermenters. 36% whole cluster component.
Fermentation: Each parcel is fermented and matured apart before blending. The winery’s resident yeast population (non-inoculated) started fermenting on the 6thday of cuvaison. The ferments reached maximum temperatures of 28-32 Celsius.
Total time of skin contact : 18-28 days
Barrel management: 10 months of new (28%) 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: 16 months
Bottling date: 28th September 2018
Wine analysis at bottling:
pH 3.64
T.A 6.3 g/l
Alc. 12.5%
R.S < 2 g/l
Release Date: 1st October, 2020
Rippon Pinot Noir 'Tinker’s Field' Mature Vine 2011
$240.00
Sale price
$240.00
Regular price