2024 Cooinda Vale Pinot Noir Rosé
After missing the 2023 vintage our rose is back and delivering everything we’ve been wanting. On the nose it’s all orange citrus and white peach, with a hint of pink grapefruit and nashi pear, the palate follows through with creamy ripe strawberries, red apple, citrus zest and a textural savoury finish.
- Volume:
- 750mls
- Alcohol:
- 13.6%
- pH:
3.3
- Standard Drinks
- 8
- Acidity:
6.8 g/L
- Maturation
4 months on fine lees
- Closure
- ScrewCap
- Style
Dry
Due to an unusually warm winter, 2024 growing season started 3 weeks earlier than expected. This lead to a busy end of winter for the vineyard team who did a great job getting the vines ready for the season ahead. The warmer temperatures and reduced but steady rainfall through the growing period was a contrast to V23, these optimal conditions lead to beautiful, high quality grapes. Harvesting commenced at Butcher’s Hill in early March with the House Block Pinot Noirs, and concluded with the Cordon Cut Riesling at Butcher’s Hill. Exceptional quality fruit and no pest or disease presence lead us to expect great things from the 2024 season.
Cooinda Vale Vineyard was established in 1985 by Pooley’s founders, Margaret and Dennis Pooley. Sitting between 80-100m above sea level, the vineyard is tucked away in a nook of hills North of Campania making it much more protected from prevailing weather conditions. Being more continental it also experiences greater extremes in temperatures bringing more frequent frosts, snow and heat waves. The iron lacking grey brown sandy loam over clay subsoils at this site tend to bring a moderate level of struggle to the vines by restricting deep root growth and water accessibility but in turn creates a wine that is more delicate and finer.
Fruit was machine picked and tipped into our open fermenters. After 6-8 hours of skin contact, each fermenter had about 10% of the liquid drained off. This is known as Saignee. The benefit is we concentrate the Pinot Noir ferments by increasing the skin to juice ratio. The by product is the Rose. Run off juice was then cold settled and racked. Juice was warmed and inoculated with TXL yeast. Post ferment the wine spent 4 months on fine lees. No fining but filtered.
After missing the 2023 vintage our rose is back and delivering everything we’ve been wanting. On the nose it’s all orange citrus and white peach, with a hint of pink grapefruit and nashi pear, the palate follows through with creamy ripe strawberries, red apple, citrus zest and a textural savoury finish.
