Pinot Noir 'Block 5'

• 100% Pinot Noir
• Block 5 is located on a gentle north facing slope in the Elms vineyard, which was planted in 1993
• Varying soil types heading up the slope with heavy loess and silt at the bottom, followed by clay lakebed deposits, and angular schist gravels
• The nature of being a gravity flow winery allows grapes to be gently destemmed without pumping
• Long pre-fermentation soak of 9 days prior to fermentation
• 20% whole cluster
• Native yeast fermentation
• Punched down by hand up to 2 times per day with a total time on skins of 23 days
• Aged for 16 months in French oak (30% new) with 2 rackings
• No fining or filtering

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