Jane Eyre Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2019

Jane Eyre Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2019The grapes are hand harvested and fermented in French oak barrels with around 20% whole clusters and then aged for another 12 months before release. The nose displays white pepper spice, red cherry and strawberry fruit. On the palate the wine has ripe red berry fruit balanced by lively acidity with fine grained tannins and dry black tea like finish. As in Burgundy, Jane buys the grapes for her Australian wines. The Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir

The grapes are hand harvested and fermented in French oak barrels with around 20% whole clusters and then aged for another 12 months before release. The nose displays white pepper spice, red cherry and strawberry fruit. On the palate the wine has ripe red berry fruit balanced by lively acidity with fine grained tannins and dry black tea like finish.

As in Burgundy, Jane buys the grapes for her Australian wines. The Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir hails from two vineyards in Merricks, with an average age of 30 years. The wine is vinified using 20 – 25% whole bunches in an open-topped wooden fermenter and spends three weeks on the skins, with several light punch downs. Jane then ages the wine for 10 months in used French oak barrels before bottling it without fining or filtration. The resulting expression is open and inviting, with lovely aromas of cherries and orange zest.

Since 2018, Jane has been buying exceptional fruit from the ‘Thousand Candles’ farm in the Yarra Valley. The site, 65 kilometres northeast of Melbourne, is famed for the quality of the Pinot Noir which grows there. She uses 20% whole bunch and gentle extraction to produce a wine which is elegant and poised, defined by beautiful perfumes of red fruit and violets.