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Blend
Pinot Meunier (100%), TUMBARUMBA
Season
The 2021/2022 growing season commenced with good spring rains, continuing through summer and giving way to a drier, temperate ripening period. Mild, cool conditions through to harvest yielded disease-free, beautifully vibrant fruit.
Viticulture
Courabyra vineyard sits on a west facing slope on deep weathered granite soils near Tumbarumba, at the foothills of the Snowy Mountains. Pinot Meunier is grown on a sloping block with East-West row orientation. The vines are cane-pruned and vertically shoot-positioned, with every leaf carefully placed!
Winemaking
Pristine grapes were hand harvested in mid-March. Approximately 25% whole-bunches were included in the ferment which was worked mainly with pigeage. After pressing, the wine underwent the malolactic fermentation in a mix of new and older Allier barrels before bottling in September 2022.
Taste
The wine combines the freshness, fragrance and brightness of cool-grown Pinot Meunier with a lively, spicy and savoury palate. The nose is delicately perfumed with light red currant and strawberry, soft smoky aromas and peppery spice notes. Fresh acidity, complex spice, sweet plums and savoury, moreish tannins frame the palate, which opens with time in the glass to reveal bright red fruit flavours.
94 points, Halliday Wine Companion (2021 vintage).
