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website is both the home of the Whisson Lake Vineyard and a hub for
the global Pinot Noir community. We invite you to find out more
about our unique patch of land and to become involved with our work
to promote Pinot Noir culture across the world. There are sections
devoted to recent news from Burgundy,
Oregon, Otago...and the Adelaide Hills, of course!
and other sections for your tasting notes, Pinot Noir events and even a
regularly updated list of Pinot Noir links. To your good
health!
On our website at the
moment...
First of the summer
wine! While the vast majority of South Australian grapegrowers
have now harvested all of their fruit, here in the Piccadilly
Valley vintage 2010 is only just getting under way. Last week
(beginning March 1, 2010) we picked a tiny amount of Pinot Noir
from a small patch of the vineyard above the winery where we grow a
burgundian strain of Pinot Noir that is a particularly early
ripener and which had, in addition, been pruned earlier than other
parts of the vineyard too. The earlier the pruning, the earlier the
harvest - or that, at least, is a good general rule of thumb. The
fruit was picked on sunny and warm days while the moon also was
full and the lightness of these, er, light conditions can be seen
now in the fermenting juice which has a deep raspberry colour and
aromatics of the most uplifted kind. This first fruit is fermenting
in the big 500L barrel that can be seen in the photo below along
with other various winemaking paraphenalia in the Whisson Lake
winery.
For more news
on what's happening at Whisson Lake at the moment, click here to go to our "Latest
Developments" page.
Burgundy: Organic wine lobby carries the day as
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