Russell & Suitor Wines Cazadora Pinot Noir 2022 (12 Bottles) Pipers River & Tamar Valley, Tas

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This Tasmanian pinot noir is full of bright red fruit, delicate but with plenty of finesse. Elegant aromas of raspberry, rose petal and subtle savoury notes. Intense upfront raspberry, with a balanced acidity and tannin structure guiding flavours of savoury cherry and oak spice to a long, driven finish.

Hand-picked in mid-April, a late year it was, fruit was crushed and destemmed to press and only the free-run juice was collected and cold settled for this wine. Juice pH was 3.14, the year was cold, and acids were high. Settled juice was warmed an inoculated and once fermentation started was transferred to new French oak hogs heads.

During fermentation a Malo culture was started and added to barrels at the end of primary fermentation. By the end of Malo lactic fermentation, wine pH was up to 3.40, barrels topped and kept on minimal Sulphur until October, being stirred monthly.