‘Emma’s Block’ Pinot Noir 2021

Vineyard: A unique parcel within Rippon, Emma’s Block faces eastward on the lakefront where ancient lake-bed clay lenses run laterally through fine schist gravels.

Emma’s Block is named after the great-great-great grandmother of the current generation of the Mills family,

through whom the name entered into the family.

Winemakers: Nick Mills & Team
Pinot Noir Clones: 5 & 6, 13, Linc
Rootstock: None Vine Density: 3800 vines/hectare
Dates picked: 1st and 9th April 2021

Fruit Handling: Picked by hand into small, 10kg cases allowing the fruit to arrive at the
winery’s sorting table undamaged and intact. Picked and fermented separately in 3, 2-tonne
stainless-steel fermenters.
Fermentation: 20% whole cluster. Each parcel is fermented and matured apart before
blending. The winery’s resident yeast population (non-inoculated) took 10 days to ferment;
and spanned temperatures between 16.5 - 30° Celsius.
Total time of skin contact: 17 and 21 days
Barrel management: 12 months of new (24%) to 4 year old French oak barrels. The malolactic
fermentation went through unaided (non-inoculated) in springtime; it was then racked back
into barrel and allowed a second winter in neutral barrels before being run directly into
bottle without filtering or fining.
Total time in barrel: 14 months
Bottling date: 29th July 2022
Wine analysis at bottling:
pH 3.68
T.A 7.1 g/l
Alc. 13.5%
R.S < 2 g/l
Cases produced: 144
Release Date: 1st October 2024
Cellaring potential: 10 years +, cellaring & decanting recommended

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