Stark-Condé Postcard Series Round Mountain Pinot Noir 2013

variety : Pinot Noir [ 100% Pinot Noir ]

winery : Stark-Conde Wines

winemaker : José Conde

wine of origin : Overberg

analysis : alc : 14.09 % vol rs : 2.3 g/l ta : 5.3 g/l

type : Red wooded organic

pack : Bottle size : 750ml closure : Cork

in the vineyard : The grapes for this wine are from a single organically-farmed vineyard located in the mountains about 5 kilometres past the upper Hemel-en-Aarde valley, just over the mountain from the Maanschynkop Nature Reserve. It is a rather isolated, but spectacular site - and brave of the farmer to try to farm organically.

Varietal: 100% Pinot Noir
Clone: mix of Dijon clones
Rootstock: various
Fruit source: Overberg
Trellis: 5-wire Perold
Irrigation: supplemental drip irrigation

about the harvest: The grapes for this wine were hand-picked in late-February and trucked to our winery in Stellenbosch and cooled overnight to 11 degrees.

Yield: 6 tons/hectare
˚B at harvest: 23-23.5˚

in the cellar : The grapes were destemmed and sorted and crushed into small open-top tanks and given a 2 - 3 day cold soak before the onset of fermentation. A portion of the wine was left whole bunch. The average ferments were 5 - 7 days. At dryness, the wine was pressed and left to settle for 2 days before racking to small French oak barrels: roughly one-third each new, 2nd and 3rd fill. The wine was given one racking after completion of malo-lactic fermentation and then bottled with a light filtration after 11 months ageing.

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Stark-Condé Postcard Series Round Mountain Pinot Noir 2013

Pinot Noir

José Conde