Rochford Wines

Rochford Yarra Valley Pinot Noir

Vintage
2004

Varieties
100% Pinot Noir

Tasting Notes
This wine is mid to deep plum in colour and of brilliant clarity. The nose shows rich berry fruit combined with spice, savoury characters and mocha oak. The palate has great structure being rich and long, finishing with a good tannin/acid balance and classic Pinot Noir flavour.

Cellaring
3 to 5 years

Winemaking Notes
This wine is a single vineyard wine made from grapes off our Yarra Valley vineyard. Produced using our Pinot Noir technique of crushing followed by 6 days of cold maceration prior to fermentation. This allows the extraction of colour and flavour from the skins without extracting hard tannins. This was followed by a 6-day hot fermentation, which included 20% barrel fermentation. Following pressing the wines were racked to barrel for malo lactic fermentation and 14 months maturation. Prior to bottling the wine was lightly filtered.

Viticultural Notes
A warm summer followed by a mild and sunny autumn produced finely structured grapes with excellent flavour definition.

Technical Data
Alcohol 14.5%
pH 3.63
Titratable acidity 6.0 grams per litre
Residual sugar 0.5 grams per litre

Accolades
Blue-Gold Award - 2007 Sydney International Wine Competition
Gold Medal -2006 Royal Melbourne Wine Show
Gold Medal - 2006 Vintage Cellars National Wine Show

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