Rosé  2009

VINEYARD

Martinborough Vineyard produces a very small amount of Rosé, and it is one of the few Rosés in New Zealand which is 100% Pinot Noir. The grapes for our Rosé are predominantly from younger vines which display more fruit forward characteristics and give texture and finesse to the wine. All our vines are intensively tended by hand, with much care taken to achieve the best flavour and balance.

Martinborough has a cool, maritime climate along with other beneficial climatic drivers including a rain shadow, one of the country’s largest diurnal temperature differentials, windy springs and a long warm ripening period through autumn.  All this results in a natural low-vigour site regulating crops and enabling high quality, consistent, ripe fruit.

VINIFICATION

The grapes for our Rosé are all hand harvested on a cool Autumn morning. In the winery we place the grapes in the press and leave them overnight to gently extract colour from the skins. After gentle pressing the next day the result is a delicate strawberry coloured, fragrant juice which is then cool fermented to retain those attractive summer berry fruit characters.