Sauvignon Blanc
All fruit is harvested by hand into 10kg small picking bins.
Whole-bunch press into Stainless Steel tank.
Racking juice to reduce heavy lees into other stainless-steel tank. (When there is more than tank, they go into very old barrels)
Estate wine is inoculated with commercial yeast. Reserve wine starts fermentation with indigenous yeast, then inoculated from the middle.
Both wines are kept on fine lees for 10 months before bottling.
Chardonnay
All fruit is harvested by hand into 10kg small picking bins.
Going through crusher and whole-bunch press into Stainless Steel tank.
Racking juice to reduce heavy lees into 225L French barrel. (Some of them are new, but mainly old barrels up to 15years old)
Indigenous fermentation, and natural malolactic fermentation in the barrels.
These wines are kept on fine lees for 18 months in the barrels before bottling.
Rose
All fruit is harvested by hand into 10kg small picking bins.
This rose is a direct press rose.
Destemmed and crushed into Stainless Steel vessel for 5 hours prior to pressing.
Racking juice to reduce heavy lees into other stainless-steel tank.
This wine is inoculated with commercial yeast, and kept on fine lees for 7 months before bottling.
Pinot Noir
All fruit is harvested by hand into 10kg small picking bins in early morning.
All fruit is gently destemmed into Stainless-steel tank. (Most of fruit is left as whole berry at this stage)
These tanks are kept at ambient temperature prior to fermentation for around 5 days.
Fermentation starts and completes with indigenous yeast. Light pump over, twice a day, is carried over during fermentation up to 10 to 15 days.
All wine is transferred into French oak barrels, 10-15% new oak for Estate, 33-40% new oak for Reserve, and malolactic fermentation starts in next spring when the temperature rise.
Estate wine kept in oak for 11 months, and Reserve wine kept in oak for 16-18 months prior to bottling.
Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc
All fruit is harvested by hand into 10kg small picking bins.
Whole-bunch press into Stainless Steel tank.
Racking juice to reduce heavy lees into other stainless-steel tank.
This wine is inoculated with commercial yeast.
After finishing primary fermentation, wine was transferred to 225L French oak Barrels for 11 months before bottling.
