2023 Eastern Peake 'Two Mile Hill' Pinot Noir - Ballarat, VIC. 750ml
Karel Schaefer & Family planted their first vines at Two Mile Hill in November 2017, it’s a 4.5 acre site with 3 different soil types & 3 varieties sitting 380m in elevation. The Pinot Noir is planted on weathered basalt chocolate brown volcanic soil, established on the flat base of the hill with no slope, this is the second vintage produced from Two Mile Hill, It’s located 7km from Eastern Peake from which you can still see our vineyard & seems to be one/two weeks earlier than us with flowering & harvest dates. Farming is shared between Karel & us under our guidance. Harvested on 28/3/2023, destemmed using no pumps into a small open top fermenter, spontaneous fermentation indigenous yeast, pump overs twice daily, basket pressed 9/4/2023, transferred into 228L barriques, 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.
