Rippon 'Rippon' Mature Vine Central Otago Pinot Noir 2018

Rippon 'Rippon' Mature Vine Central Otago Pinot Noir 2018French oak Dark red fruit Oak spice Unfined & unfiltered The farm voice of a distinct parcel of land: Rippon, the western board of Roy's Bay, Lake Wanaka. Rippon's north facing escarpment forms the meeting point of terminal moraines and coarse gravels; all based in schist. Rippon, a wine issued from all of the fully developed Pinot Noir vines, is considered the farm voice of this distinct parcel of land. Picked by hand into small, 10kg cases allowing

• French oak
• Dark red fruit
• Oak spice
• Unfined & unfiltered

The farm voice of a distinct parcel of land: Rippon, the western board of Roy's Bay, Lake Wanaka. Rippon's north-facing escarpment forms the meeting point of terminal moraines and coarse gravels; all based in schist. Rippon, a wine issued from all of the fully developed Pinot Noir vines, is considered the farm voice of this distinct parcel of land.

Picked by hand into small, 10kg cases allowing the fruit to arrive at the winery's sorting table undamaged and intact. This wine represents many small parcels of different clones, wine ages and micro-sites withing a single vineyard: Rippon. They were picked and fermented separately in 13,2-tonne stainless steel fermenters.

Each parcel is fermented and matured apart before blending. The winery's resident yeast population (non-inoculated) completed cuvaison in 11-28 days. The ferments reached maximum temperatures of 12-32 Celsius. 12 months of new (14.5%) to 4 year old French oak barrels. The malolactic fermentation went through unaided (non-inoculated) in springtime; it was then racked back into barrel and allowed a second winter in barrel before being run directly into bottle without filtering or fining.