Neudorf Moutere Pinot Noir 2006 – Home Vineyard : Five Stars – Cuisine 2008
Available in Pinot Pack only
Single vineyard wine, wild yeast ferment.
Each year we craft this wine around a our “Pommard” clone Pinot Noir vines which spill down the slope to the front and alongside our homestead at Neudorf. These vines consistently produce a wine which we cherish for its elegant structure of fine silky tannins and its balance of power, layered complexity and translucent finesse.
2006 was an exceptional year and has produced a wine of finesse and poise. Subtle and ethereal with the classic Neudorf Pinot visceral notes wrapped around lovely ripe brambly fruits.
The nose is entrancing, running from the fragrance of violets and dark cherries through a summer roadside of blackberries, brambles and general “sur bois” with a background of mushrooms, dried herbs and cedary spice.
The initial impact is one of smoothness and femininity, silk swirling and flashing as the wine reveals the layers of its being. But the underlying strength and muscle of the wine soon becomes apparent.
Technical Notes
From the Home Vineyard we picked and co-fermented selected Burgundy clones - 777, 667, 113, 114, and 115 – in late May. A separate ferment of our rich Pommard clone was picked later and fermented separately.
Fruit was chilled, carefully sorted, de-stemmed and cold macerated prior to fermentation on the skins in small batch fermenters. Fermentation occurred spontaneously using indigenous yeast’s reaching temperatures of 33C. The wines were hand plunged over a prolonged skin contact time. The wine was racked to French Oak (30% new) from a variety of Burgundy coopers. In spring the wine completed wild malo-lactic fermentation and was blended and racked to tank.
Bottled without fining or filtration in August 07 at 3.67pH, 5.4gL TA, Dry, 13.5% Alc.
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