Blackenbrook Vineyard

The fruit came in with exceptional flavours and intensity.  During the entire wine-making process this wine stood out and we consequently decided to release it as our very first Reserve Pinot Gris.

It is a stylish, finely poised wine with fragrant rich aromas of stone fruit, pears and spice, an excellent mouthfeel and an oily,  medium-dry finish.

It will benefit from bottle ageing and we recommend to enjoy it between now and 2012.  Ideal serving temperature: 15°C

• 100% Blackenbrook fruit from our Home block
• Moutere clay soil with a layer of sandy loam
• All vines grafted on site
• Clones: Larcomb, KWV 7A

Focus on healthy soil and strong plants

Excellent spring weather resulted in almost perfect pollination.   A warm summer brought along healthy canopy growth leading to the earliest harvest ever. 

Hand-picked and hand-sorted on 27 March at optimum ripeness
25.3 Brix

• Whole bunch pressed
• Gravity-fed from press area to main winery
• Cool fermentation, stopped at approx 15g/ltr natural residual sugar.
• Extended fine lees contact in stainless steel
• Minimal pumping and gentle filtration

Bottled on 31 July 2008 under the revolutionary Diam Cork

• 15.0% Alcohol

The Diam Cork

The DIAM cork guarantees a 100% cork taint free closure of wine bottles. These corks also offer near perfect seals and no random cork oxidation or leaks. The cork is reduced to cork flour, before being washed with carbon dioxide removing TCA. Subsequently the flour is reconstituted and held together by the same polymer that contact lenses are made from.