Pinot Noir Cornish Point 2014

Felton Road, tasting note (feltonroad.com – produktside feltonroad.com, hentet 2026-10-19): 2014 Felton Road Pinot Noir Cornish Point – område: Bannockburn (Central Otago); drue: Pinot Noir. Enkeltmark ifølge arket: Cornish Point. Producentens noter (engelsk): Tasting note: Deep florals and spice notes overlying a ripe plum and blueberry base. There is a real textural lead in the palate with the typical Cornish Point plushness and a mouthfeel that seems to continuously expand. Chocolate and mocha flavours abound in the lengthy finish. An extra dimension of sophistication in this vintage; welcome in a wine whose strength historically has been a little more strident. Vineyard & viticulture: Felton Road farms four properties totaling 32 ha in the Bannockburn sub-region of Central Otago. This wine is from Cornish Point vineyard where the close proximity to water creates a unique mesoclimate. Meticulous summer management of a single vertical shoot positioned (VSP) canopy ensures even and early fruit maturity. Shoot thinning, shoot positioning, leaf plucking, bunch thinning and harvest are all carried out by hand to ensure optimum quality fruit. Cover crops are planted between rows to assist in vine balance and to improve soil health and general biodiversity. Vinification: The unique gravity flow winery enabled the grapes to be gently destemmed directly into open-top fermenters without pumping with approximately 25% as whole clusters. Traditional fermentation with a moderately long maceration on skins has extracted good colour and tannin with considerable depth of flavour. This wine was aged for 13 months in French oak barrels from artisan Burgundian coopers. In accordance with our non-interventionalist approach to winemaking, this wine was fermented with indigenous yeast and was not fined or filtered.