Magnum - Mt Difficulty Long Gully Pinot Noir 2008 1500ml
This is the third Long Gully Single Vineyard Pinot Noir. Long Gully has always displayed classic red to black forest berry characters and for this vintage warmer blackcurrent and boysenberry really shine through. These same berries dominate the entry onto the palate, and flow in a rich and sensuous vein of fruit through the mid-palate. The wine finishes strongly with lovely fine grained tannin integrating seamlessly.
Cellaring potential:
Mt Difficulty Long Gully Pinot Noir will improve for 10 -15 years given optimal cellaring conditions.
Vintage:
2008 was a ripe vintage - the concentration of flavours and varietal definition in all the wines is excellent, with fairly typical acid levels.
The 2008 growing season was close to ideal - poor weather during the previous December led to low bunch numbers, then a warm spring with less wind than usual created fantastic flowering conditions. The Grapevision vineyard management team worked hard to manage bunch yields, resulting in a crop level only 10% over our target. A hot and dry summer and autumn lifted the ripeness level of the wines onto the next plane. The condition of the grapes at harvest was great; with very little variability or shrivel. As is often the case given the dry conditions in Central Otago, we had no botrytis at all.
Vineyard:
The grapes for the wines that carry the Mt Difficulty label are subject to two strict criteria: they are managed under the umbrella of the Mt Difficulty viticultural team and are sourced from vineyards situated in a very specific area - the South side of the Kawarau River at Bannockburn. Mt Difficulty Single Vineyard wines are even more site specific, created to express the terroir from which they come. Thus Mt Difficulty Long Gully Pinot Noir is the essence of the vineyard itself. Long Gully consists of Lochar soils which are formed in older fans, with thin and wavy clay pans which are deep enough to cause no impediment to roots or drainage. They are well-drained, high pH soils ideally suited to viticulture, with generally 30cm depth of top soil over fine to moderately coarse gravels. Long Gully has 5 different clones of Pinot Noir planted - 5, 6, 10/5, 113 and 115.
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