Kilfara Pinot Noir 2007 

Kilfara Pinot Noir is made using traditional methods, and fruit from  cool Victorian vineyards. This year, the grapes are from the Norris vineyard at Faraday in the Bendigo region. A medium bodied wine with intense varietal character and excellent palate structure. Tannins are soft and round but clearly evident.

In Burgundy, the home of all great Pinot Noir, a winemaker named Guy Accad had growers, makers, buyers, sellers and drinkers excited (both for and against) with recommendations he made to use modern technology to recreate the wines of the past. He argued that modern Burgundy was too light, lacking complexity and cellaring potential. He asserted that, as the grapes are picked early to avoid the risks of later harvest, the wine must be chaptalised to increase alcohol and extend the fermentation; and that the use of pure yeast cultures has allowed reduced levels of sulphur dioxide, which in turn has led to less extraction of flavour and colour from the skins.

Since 1990 we have employed some of Guy’s recommendations. To recreate the older methods, using fully ripened grapes, we add a much larger than normal dose of sulphur dioxide to crushed and partially (about 40%) destemmed grapes.

Fruit is chilled at the crusher and inoculated with yeast at this point. The crushed fruit is allowed to naturally warm up over 3 - 4 days, over which time extra extraction of colour and flavour occurs.

A percentage of whole bunches (25 - 40%) are often added during crusing, depending on the ripeness of the stalks. The added stalks help to impart more savoury characteristics to the wine.

$27.00 ea

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