Barratt 'ULEY' Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021

Showing raspberry, cherry and a musky lifted perfumed nose. The palate is fresh, bright and youthful with crunch acidity. The cherry and raspberry carrying over to the palate along with lovely black tea and earthy notes with fine supple tannin.

Hand harvested from the 38 year old Uley Vineyard in the Piccadilly Valley farmed by Lindsey Barratt. The vineyard is comprised of well drained sandy/sandstone loam soils with some ironstone running through, planted to multiple clones D5V12, D4V2, 114, 115, 777 and Pommard. The grapes are fermented clone by clone in small open top fermenters, around 20% whole bunch with the rest starting as whole berries, plunged four times per day. Once dry, is given a light press and then left to settle in tank for 2-3 days before being transferred to barrel. The wine then spends 11 months in French oak barriques, 25% new, 20% second use, 20% third use and the remainder older.