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Stelvin

ABV 14%

Scorpo ‘Eocene’ High Density Vineyard (9800 Vines to the Hectare) 2017 Pinot Noir is made from hand-picked fruit; Abel clone. It is wild yeast fermented in open stainless steel fermenters with 10% whole bunch and 90% destemmed fruit. It is pressed out after 20 days. Indigenous malolactic fermentation follows a few months after the wine is transferred to French oak barrels (20% new).  The wine is bottled without fining or filtration 13 months later.