SileniEstates‘ThePlateau’PinotNoir

<p>Complex aromas of varietal dark berry fruit and florals. The palate is rich with flavours of sweet dark cherry, spice and silky tannins. This is a food-friendly style, excellent with mushroom risotto, pink duck lamb or pasta with truffle and parmesan.</p><p>Grown on elevated river terraces, in the cooler, inland, Mangatahi sub-region. Soils are free draining silt, over gravels. Crops were thinned to an average of 2.2kg per vine to provide ripe and concentrated fruit flavours. Partially crushed into a mix of open top and closed top tanks, the open fermenters were hand plunged and the closed top were rummaged and pumped-over for extraction. Racked to French barriques and completed malolactic fermentation naturally in the spring. It was matured nine months before blending and bottling.</p><p>From robust salmon dishes through to the Christmas goose, this is a verstaile match for many rich foods.</p>