Bress Silver Chook Pinot Noir 2013

Description

Winemaker Adam Marks has made his mark (pardon the pun!) as one of our most progressive vintners at Victoria ‘s Bress wines.  His European approach and belief is that one region cannot produce a range of wines of equally high quality instead he matches varieties to regions.  About the name, Marks says “Whilst living and winemaking in the Yarra Valley, I discovered the joys of breeding and showing chickens.  This passion led me to visit France in 1996 to witness first hand their traditional methods of breeding chickens and I dedicate our wines to the famous chickens of France and what they represent – artisan production using traditional, age old methods.

We like his affinity with Rudolph Steiner ‘s bio dynamics and natural approach in the vineyard (no chemical fertilisers) and winery (natural yeasts and no fining or filtering reds and minimal sulphur additions).

This 2013 Pinot sourced from Yarra and Macedon hits the spot!  A good growing season has delivered the goods.  It represents extraordinary value with unique personality (lovely purity of fruit), depth, complexity and balance for pinot at this price.

More from Adam Marks about this vintage… “My winemaking belief is that good fruit should be treated gently and with minimal intervention. T he Bress 2013 ‘Silver Chook ‘ Yarra Valley and Macedon Pinot Noir was treated in this manner.  A combination of whole bunch and gently crushed fruit fermentations occurred in open fermenters.  Fermentation was slow and was conducted by indigenous yeast strains. Hand plunging occurred three times a day.  Post pressing the wine was transferred to French oak hogsheads for malolactic fermentation… “

This fine pinot comes up trumps again !

92 points for the 2012 James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2014 “A blend of two distinctly different regions and using self proclaimed ‘minimal intervention ‘ techniques. the bouquet offers red and black cherry with a briary. herbal overtone. the palate is focused. vibrant and fresh. with fine tannins and lively red fruits lingering on the supple finish. “

RRP $30