Mission Estate Merlot 2005
Produced By Mission Estate Winery
Wine Description
The wine has a bright vibrant colour. It is a style with vibrant fruit with subtle oak influence. The fruity berry-driven nose and cherry and violet flavours give an impression of fullness. The wine has good fruit intensity on the medium bodied palate, showing fine-grained, soft tannins and great length.
Winemakers Notes
The grapes were fermented on skins followed by a post fermentation maceration of up to 10 days. Pump overs were carried out once a day to extract colour without extracting hard tannins. The wine was given malo-lactic fermentation then blended, oak aged and stabilised before bottling in December to make a soft, rich and fruity style.
Viticulture Notes
The fruit was off the warmest inland sites in Hawke's Bay. The soils on these vineyards are free draining and stony, ideal for Merlot. These vineyards were carefully managed to fully ripen the fruit using techniques such as vine trimming, leaf plucking around the bunches and fruit thinning to give a balanced crop load. The crop loads were kept low to maximised fruit ripeness and quality. The growing season was exceptionally warm and dry from mid January through to mid March, which provided ideal ripening conditions for the fruit to produce good colour and ripe flavours and tannins.
Cellaring
This wine has sufficient tannin and fruit to cellar for two years if stored correctly. This wine is youthful, soft and fruity at time of release, and will unfold particularly well over the next year.
Technical Details
WineMaker: Paul Mooney
Vintage: 2005
Variety: Merlot
Region: Hawkes Bay
Alcohol: 13.1%
RS: Dry
TA: 5.5
pH: 3.55
Mission Estate Merlot 2005
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