Jules Taylor OTQ Single Vineyard Pinot Noir

Origin: Australia
Terroir: Marlborough

Winemakers Notes
The OTQ Series is a pure expression of Jules’ winemaking skills and her vision to create wines which speak of their place.

Aroma & Flavour
This Pinot Noir exudes powerful aromas of blackberries, black cherry and plum. Smokey suggestions from the oak are layered over earthy tones and a hint of baking spice. This Pinot Noir is juicy, fleshy and medium - full bodied on the palate, with wonderfully impressive primary flavours of blackberries, boysenberries and black doris plums. The wine has complexity with well-integrated oak and velvety tannins and provides tones of nuances of kalamata olive and red beetroot. For optimum flavour decant for 20 minutes.

Vinification
The grapes for this Pinot Noir were grown in the quaint and rustic Wrekin Vineyard which lies in the Brancott valley. Positioned on northwestern facing slopes with deep clay soils, this charming little vineyard was carefully managed to provide very low-yield and high quality crop. The wine then wild fermented with indigenous yeast, gentle hand plunging during the fermentation ensured gentle extraction of tannins and colour. After some time on skins and extended maceration, Jules pressed off the wine into a combination of new and old French oak where a full malolactic fermentation took place. Here it matured for 11 months then removed the wine from oak, gave it a light egg white fining and bottled it.