Giant Steps Wombat Creek Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022

Name: Giant Steps Wombat Creek Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022
Brand: Giant Steps
SKU: RAWGSWPNO18-WC
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About this Wine

SEASON:
2022 was a high quality but low yielding season in the Yarra Valley.
A very cool, wet and stormy spring resulted in some challenging conditions
around flowering and hence very poor fruit set. The season proceeded to
dry out into December, with a dry and warm Christmas period. This exacerbated the already small bunch weights, leading to bunches that weighed up to 40% lower than average.

The mild summer meant long, slow ripening and flavour concentration
throughout summer, with some well-placed rain in January refreshing the
vineyards at just the right time.

The strong canopies and low fruit load meant we sailed neatly into picking
with very little disease or weather pressure affecting our picking decisions.
The grapes from 2022 came off the vine with lovely concentration and
flavour and great natural acidity.

Wombat Creek Vineyard is the highest altitude vineyard in the Yarra Valley,
making it an ideal location for the production of extreme cool climate
wines. The vineyard was originally planted in 1988 with the intention of
producing base wine for sparkling production but over the years has been
gradually transitioned to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir for table wine. The
underlying ferrous (red) based volcanic soil and rock produce a distinctively
soft yet long and firm palate that contrasts with the finer palates seen from
the nearby Applejack Vineyard (basalt based volcanic).

THE VINEYARD:
Location: Gladysdale
Planted: 1988
Elevation: 410 meters
Soil Type: Volcanic loam (red / ferrous)
Aspect: North-east facing slopes
Size: 16 hectares

Appellation: Yarra Valley
Varietals: 100% Pinot Noir
Clone: MV6
Alc/Vol (%): 13.5
TA (g/L): 4.6
pH: 3.69
Cellaring: Two - five years

Type	Red Wine
Varietal(s)	Pinot Noir
Country	Australia
Region	Yarra Valley
Brand	Giant Steps
Vintage	2022

Yarra Valley Wine

The Yarra Valley wine region is the most important area of wine production in Victoria today, and with its proximity to Melbourne, also the most visited in the state.

Yarra Valley is split into the Upper Yarra and the valley floor. The Upper Yarra is cooler in climate due to its elevation and coupled with younger, fertile, red soils produces most of the region’s notable varietals: Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The valley floor is warmer and has predominantly grey soils with pockets of granite and limestone.

Pinot noir has long been considered a notoriously difficult variety to grow. However, the cool climate and longer growing seasons of the Yarra Valley allow the fruit to develop full flavoured and ripe character.

Chardonnay in the past has long been associated with a deep oily, buttery style that experiences full malolactic fermentation and great amounts of oak. This style has since fallen out of favour and wine makers in the Yarra Valley have capitalized on this trend to produce leaner, acid driven Chardonnays that are closer in style to those from Burgundy.

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