Our 100% Pinot Noir wine is made using standard Whisson Lake practices - no fiddling! Or to put it another way, more or less how winemaking was done in the better cellars in Burgundy before the advent of high-tech oenology.
That is to say: wild (ambient!) yeast, wild malo bugs, no pH adjustments, no added tannin, vitamins, colour or anything else, no fining or filtering, no refrigeration but with cold soaks pre- and post-fermentation, and warm ferments in open fermenters (we insulate the fermenters and heat them if necessary).
All of our wine is made in very minimal batches and bottles are limited.
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Our 100% Pinot Noir wine is made using standard Whisson Lake practices - no fiddling! Or to put it another way, more or less how winemaking was done in the better cellars in Burgundy before the advent of high-tech oenology.
That is to say: wild (ambient!) yeast, wild malo bugs, no pH adjustments, no added tannin, vitamins, colour or anything else, no fining or filtering, no refrigeration but with cold soaks pre- and post-fermentation, and warm ferments in open fermenters (we insulate the fermenters and heat them if necessary).
All of our wine is made in very minimal batches and bottles are limited.
That is to say: wild (ambient!) yeast, wild malo bugs, no pH adjustments, no added tannin, vitamins, colour or anything else, no fining or filtering, no refrigeration but with cold soaks pre- and post-fermentation, and warm ferments in open fermenters (we insulate the fermenters and heat them if necessary).
All of our wine is made in very minimal batches and bottles are limited.