2023 Eastern Peake 'Intrinsic' Pinot Noir. Coghills Creek-Ballarat-VIC. 750ml
Intrinsic Pinot Noir, the pulse of Eastern Peake! Now with vine material ranging from 40 years to 30 yrs from our 3 beautiful established Pinot Noir Blocks on the Estate. Its our single vineyard wine we produce year on year representing exactly what we do capturing each season in a glass. All original MV6 clone grown on well looked after Volcanic grey loam soils over weathered basalt sitting at 430m alt, thoughtfully farmed with strict organic practices & a mix of regenerative agriculture inputs such as rotating cover crops to help with keeping our soils in such pristine condition, flowering was very good considering how extreme the weather was during season 2023. Everything went to plan in the vineyard with our organic practice, the season definitely kept us on our toes along the way with the unpredictable weather presenting a much cooler than expected year that really helped build up amazing flavour profiles & structure in the berries.
Blocks harvested from the 7th - 13rd of April, all destemmed into our original 3000L concrete fermenters, as always spontaneous fermentation via our indigenous yeasts , pump overs once a day, vats are all basket pressed individually, blocks kept separate & transferred into 228L barriques of various French coopers (mostly Siruge & Dominique Laurent 30% new), topped monthly, sulphur added post malo in November, racked from barrels in late march 2024 to stainless tank where its left to enjoy another full winter to gain complexity & naturally settle prior to bottling, no fining or filtering.
This wine is drinking exceptionally well right now but one that will definitely cellar for 20-30 years or more with ease! We do hold back vintages of Eastern Peake Intrinsic Pinot Noir from every year to reflect on, look out for a a back vintage release later in the year.
Due to the increasing demand for our Pinot Noirs we’ve also planted a new small block of Pinot Noir with clones 115 & our own vine material from block ‘1989’ (Morillon Clone Pinot Noir vine material sourced from Best’s original Pinot Noir vineyard a Swiss clone), the block is slightly more elevated than the rest of the estate same soil & aspect. Ive always wanted to work with some 115 on the estate feeling that it would complement our MV6 perfectly looking forward to keeping everyone informed on the progress of this.
