Shaky Bridge Wines is located below the southern 45th parallel in the magnificent Alexandra Basin of New Zealand’s stunningly beautiful Central Otago. The Alexandra Basin is the most southern winegrowing region on the planet, so the growing environment is all about cool climate viticulture. Shaky Bridge has selected grape varieties and clones that thrive in the natural conditions of the basin with the goal of producing intensely flavoured wines of superb quality. Such focus on quality is at the heart of their viticultural and vinification decisions, creating deliciously memorable wines.
Winemaking Notes
Very low yields of very high quality Pinot Noir grapes were hand harvested around April 29. We destemmed and lightly crushed the grapes, leaving the juice and skins to cold soak for a period of about 12 days before primary fermentation. Using warm fermentation temperatures the wine was hand plunged and pumped over several times daily. We racked the wine in to 40% new, 30% first year and 30% second year oak barrels for maturation and malolactic. The wine remained in oak for 14 months prior to bottling. Given the grape quality and intensity of this wine, our use of oak was a departure from our usual 11 month regimen. We lightly filtered the wine before bottling.
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