2002 Red Hills Estate Pinot Noir

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2002 Red Hills Estate Pinot Noir

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ORIGIN: The Red Hills Estate vineyard has moderate slopes, shallow Jory soils, and southern exposure. It produces one of our finest vineyard designated wines. The terroir of one of the premier sites in the Red Hills of Dundee is expressed uniquely in the aromas and flavors of the wine.

VINEYARD: This wine comes from 25-year-old plantings of self-rooted Pommard clone Pinot Noir and a small amount of our new plantings of Dijon clones 113, 115, and 777. The 2002 vintage had an amazing growing season; long and dry, without any rain until after harvest. Low yields and an extended ripening period helped to craft the concentrated, intense and structured 2002 Red Hills Estate Pinot Noir.

WINEMAKING: We use only native yeasts for fermentation, and the resulting wine is very impressive and represents the essence of our Red Hills Estate. The wine was vinified traditionally by utilizing 30% whole clusters and cold soaking for four to eight days before primary fermentation. Primary fermentation was conducted in tank entirely by indigenous yeasts, during which time tanks were manually punched down 1-4 times per day. The wine was aged for fourteen months in new François Frères and Tonnellerie Rousseau oak barrels, prior to bottling in January 2004. Gently crafted in our 10)% gravity flow facility from the arrival of the fruit to bottling, this wine is unfined and unfiltered.

TASTING NOTES: This wine opens with a perfume of black plum, cherry, forest floor and cinnamon stick. The palate is focused around a concentrated core of black cherry with notes of black currant, sassafras, cocoa, meat and mineral. A swarm of supple tannins lend depth and texture to this impressive wine. The finish persists with black fruit compote, toasty cocoa and exotic spice. The 2002 Red Hills Estate is of structured style and is both powerful and elegant, this wine is ready to be enjoyed now throughout the next five to ten years.

This vintage produced 2,573 six-bottle cases 120 magnums and 30 3-liter bottles.

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