Perfect with game, lamb and poultry dishes, Italian style foods and vegetarian cuisine.
Winemaker Notes
Hand harvested from the family owned Waihopai Valley and Wairau sites. Soil in the vineyard is of stony silt with loam topsoil, free draining. Canopy Management is vertical shoot positioning with shoot and crop thinning. Fermented in open stainless steel fermenters, cold soaked and hand plunged during fermentation. Pressed and transferred to old and new oak barriques for malolactic fermentation and 10 months maturation.
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Alcohol %: 13.5
Total Acid: 6.2 g/l
Free/Total Sulfur: 60 mg/l
Residual Sugar: Less than 1 g/l