Polperro /
2024 Coverdale Pinot Noir
REGION
Mornington Peninsula
TASTING
The 2024 Coverdale Pinot Noir leads with dark fruits, cherry, plum and quince jam, along with freshly turned soil. The palate is brambly, forest floor, spiced quince, blue and black fruits, plum berry compote and puckery savoury tannins. A fine acid line creates elegant length.
WINEMAKING
The fruit is handpicked and destemmed into 2 ton open fermenters as whole berries and left to start fermenting naturally. It is not touched until a 2-3° drop in baumé, which allows fermentation to occur inside the grape berry to increase the aromatics of the finished wine. Once fermentation starts strongly then the ferment is hand plunged 2-3 times per day for 15 days. The wine is left on skins for post ferment maturation for another 15 days. It is then pressed off skins and racked to barrel. 30 % new oak and predominately Sirugue extra tight grain Light toast. In spring the wine is racked and returned to barrel. After a total of 16 months barrel maturation the wine is bottled without fining or filtration.
VINEYARD
The Coverdale vineyard, winemaker and owner Sam Coverdale’s family vineyard, is situated on a northerly slope with vineyard rows orientated to the north east. It is a very sheltered site sitting in a little valley looking north out towards the Dandenong Ranges. With protection from strong winds to the south, east, west and north there is even ripening throughout and as a result it is the first of the single vineyards to pick each year with lovely mid-palate fruit weight and structured tannins.
Elevation: 160M
Harvest date: mid-March
Planted on 101-14 rootstocks
Pinot Noir clone MV6 1 acre. planted 2010
Pinot Noir clone 115. 1.1 acre. planted 2010
Pinot Noir clone 777. 0.75 acres planted 2010
Pinot Noir Pommard, 0.75 acres planted 2015
Pinot Noir 667 0.7acres planted 2019
Pinot Noir Abel. 0.5 acres planted 2015
The single vineyard wine made from this vineyard is produced exclusively from one acre of MV6 clone. All vines are cane pruned to VSP.
VITICULTURE
We grow, make and farm our vineyards using a philosophy of sustainability and regenerative agriculture, applying a mix of biological, biodynamic and organic practices.
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PRICE
$110 RRP/ $660 case of 6