Climate

Beneficent growing season with balanced temperatures & rainfall during critical growth period optimized grapes’ yield and quality. Cool and dry days from veraison to harvest extended the ripening period and allowed us to make aromatic wines with exceptional varietal character and intensity. Large temperature differentials from night to day have resulted in wines with excellent natural sugar/acid balance.

Viticulture

Trained onto two wire vertical trellises with both wires mechanically pruned back to two buds. The canopy is managed through reduced water to restrict its vigour, increase both flavour intensity.

Grapes harvested during the cool of the night to retain freshness and varietal character. The grapes then de-stemmed and pressed gently in a pneumatic press to release its juice. Selected yeast strain that brings out varietal character used to inoculate the clarified juice. Fermentation occurred in stainless steel tanks at cold temperature 14-15 ?, which allows a longer fermentation in order to retain freshness and producing pleasant aromas. The wine was stored in stainless steel tanks on French and American oak to produce complexity and stirred on lees to create texture and mouthfeel before fining, finishing and bottling processes.