Escaroth Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022

$70.00 NZD

Vineyard: Escaroth Vineyard
Subregion: Taylor Pass | Southern Valleys
Region: Marlborough
Vintage: 2022
Soil Type: Low-vigour ancient clays
Clone: Dijon clones 777 and 115
Viticulture: Dry-farmed and Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand Certified (SWNZ)
Growers: Andy and Kyna Laurie

Appellation Marlborough Wine Certified (AMW) | Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand Certified (SWNZ)
Vegan | Vegetarian

Escaroth is a site that wears each vintage honestly, rewarding careful stewardship with wines of depth, purity, and quiet intrigue. It has a beguiling, complex perfume that treads both red and blue fruit and an enchanting spice, game and earthy savouriness. The dry-farmed nature of the site has resulted in incredible concentration and intensity.

A proportion of whole-bunch is used to ensure balanced extraction and lifted aromatics. The result is a very complex, savoury Pinot Noir with a structured yet elegant tannin framework.

Hand-harvested on 30th March 2022, 40% of the parcel was tipped in as whole clusters into an open-top fermenter while the remainder was destemmed and crushed over the top.

The fruit was kept cool until wild yeast began fermentation after five days. The ferment was closely tended with daily hand-plunging over 14 days to draw balanced colour, tannin and aromatic lift. The wine was drained and pressed to French oak barriques (36% new).

Maturation took place in barrel over 12 months before a further three months in tank to integrate and naturally settle, and the wine was bottled without fining or filtration on 7th July 2023, retaining clarity, savoury depth and site expression.

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