Gewurztraminer
Fruit Condition:
Moderate yielding. Small berries, very light bunches. Good skin colour. Mature seeds.
Handling:
Picked by hand into small, 10kg cases allowing the fruit to arrive at the winery’s sorting table intact. Over 50% was left on its skins to macerate over night. All fruit was whole bunch pressed over 3 hours and run, by gravity, into settling tanks. 12 hours of settling is passed after which the juice is racked, retaining fine lees, into a horizontal fermentation tank (stainless-steel foudre).
Wine analysis at bottling:
pH 3.12
T.A 7.4g/l
Alc. 13.3 %
R.S 8.2 g/l