Yarra Valley Pinot Noir

Yarra Valley Pinot Noir

Yarra Valley Pinot Noir – This wine has perfumed cherry characters coming from the Sexton Vineyard, Campari notes from Applejack and Tarraford’s mocha and cocoa earthiness underpinning it. On the palate, vibrant red fruit aromas but a lovely underlying earthiness, truffles, and savoury spice. An elegant wine with breadth, structure and viscosity on the palate.

Rather than focusing on single-vineyard expressions, Giant Steps’ Yarra Valley wines seek to provide exemplary, regional examples of Yarra Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Made using hand-picked fruit from estate vineyards, the wines are produced using indigenous yeasts, gravity-flow winemaking and minimal fining and filtration.

All Giant Steps fruit is 100% hand-picked and sorted in the vineyard. Pinot Noir is handled in one of two ways at Giant Steps; it is either fermented semi carbonic with 100% whole bunch or destemmed and fermented with whole berries. The whole bunch batches are fermented warm with minimal mixing for 14 days. The destemmed whole berry parcels are cold soaked for 3 days before they are allowed to warm up and start fermentation naturally. All cap management is done using gravity drain and returns, allowing for gentle extraction before pressing. Each parcel is then transferred by gravity to French oak barriques for malolactic fermentation and is kept on lees for the duration of its maturation. Parcels are matured in French oak (10% new, 90% older) for eight months. This wine is then blended in October and bottled by gravity without fining or filtration in November.

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Yarra Valley Pinot Noir