Fox & Archer 2018 Mountain Pinot Noir 750ml

With the Mountain Pinot Noir, the fruit is destemmed mostly whole berry with no crusher so we don’t over macerate the fruit. Depending on the vintage we sometimes will ferment whole cluster as well. The fermentation is around 14-18 days on its skins but that all depends on the vintage. We use indigenous yeasts as well as a few cultured yeasts for most of our ferments. When the fermentation is complete we then rack off the free run and gently press the wine off of its skins with the use of a basket press. The wine will age in mostly French Oak with a mix of mostly new and neutral Barrels for roughly 10 months before it goes unfiltered to bottle. I find the Mountain Pinot Noir has nice flavors of Cherry, Liquorice, Red Currants, Graphite and a touch of Baking Spice.

--Winemaker