Poetry in motion…

April 14th, 2010 | Posted by

Heres a quick clip of us receiving our first batch of Pinot Noir from Waipara. The fruit is pretty clean but we run it over the sort table anyway just to clear out the odd bit of leaf and dodgy fruit. One great thing we opted to do when building the winery and buying new equipment (2007) was not to have a must pump as I believe they are too harsh on the fruit. Our Pinot is conveyed up to the destemmer and the fruit gently drops into the fermenter. We arent crushing it, only destemming so the berries are mostly intact at this point. Each fermenter holds 1.5 tonnes of fruit and are ideal in size for temperature control and skin-to-juice ratios.