NIKAU PINOT NOIR (2023)

GROWING

• Soil Type: A layered bed of sedimentary materials including compressed sandstone, silica, siltstone, and mud-clast conglomerate formed over 65 million years ago

• Nikau Home block 

WINEMAKING

• Inspired by Ganevat's Pinot Noir - embracing elegance, power and complexity at such low alcohols

• Healthy grapes picked at a baumé of 11.3 and a TA (titratable acid) of 12.3

• Hand-sorted, hand destemmed, and cold-soaked for 48 hours to start fermentation very slowly 

• Fermentation lasted 6 days before pressing to a small stainless steel tank to finish fermenting as juice

WHAT'S GOOD?

• A reflection of 7 years of hard work and understanding of the vineyard's nuances, its character, and intricacies

• The wine is the culmination of a lot of work and a lot of learning that Dane could not be happier to put into bottles

• Extremely elegant structure with depth and complexity, despite its 11% alcohol

• Fresh, energetic, but also full of subtle, fine-scale complexity

• Only 434 bottles produced

ALCOHOL

• 11% 

VOLUME

• 750ML

BODY

• Light - Medium