in the cellar : After being destalked, the skins and juice were placed in one stainless steel tank where the juice lay on the skins over night before being inoculated with yeast. The juice fermented at between 25ºC to 30ºC. At ±6º Balling, 20% of wine was racked to new barrels where it underwent alcohol fermentation, and then malolactic fermentation.
The balance of the wine was transferred to a stainless steel tank and the skins were transferred to the press. The juice from the skins was added to the juice in the stainless steel tank and thereafter this wine underwent malolactic fermentation.
During September 2005 the wine in the stainless steel tank was transferred to 2nd and 3rd fill barrels. The wine remained in the barrels for approximately 14 months whereafter it was bottled.
Bottling Date: 24 May 2006
Packaging: 6 x 750ml horizontally packed
Quantity produced: 5,000 x 750ml