Catalina Sounds Sound of White Pinot Noir 2016
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3.59
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The Sound of White Pinot Noir captures the richness and density of fruit that this vineyard provides. Cherries, red and dark berry fruits abound with hints of violets and plum. The palate is juicy and powerful, yet retains a silken elegance, framed with oak tannin, leading to a very long, sustained finish. Enjoy with game meats on the back deck.
Wild forest berries, cherry and raspberry notes leap from the glass with transparency and clarity.
Pinot Noir
The wine was then run to French oak barriques (27% new) for maturation and natural malolactic fermentation. After 14 months in oak, the wine was racked to tank and prepped for unfiltered bottling.
The palate is silken and elegant, with the powerful fruit notes framed by ripe tannins and oak structure, leading to a very long, sustained finish.
The Sound of White range was created to celebrate the vineyard, with very little influence from the winemaker. This necessarily entails a very simple process. The fruit was hand-picked and destemmed into an open top fermenter under gravity. The fruit was allowed to cold soak for seven days at which point natural fermentation was obvious. With the ferment active, it was allowed to warm up, rising to a peak of 30 degrees near the end of fermentation, prior to a ten day soak on skins post fermentation.
Sourced from the Eastern hald of our scattered clone, pinot noir block at Sound of White Vineyard. This site is ideally situated being a north facing hillside with heavy, clay-rich soils. In 2016, it was spur pruned and cropped at 6.5T/Ha. Shoot thinning, leaf plucking and green harvesting were all empoloyed to ensure fruit at its optimum when hand harvested on March 23rd 2016
5.7
3.59
13.0