• Colour

  Red

• Vintage

  2009

• Producer

  Marchand & Burch

• Country

  AUSTRALIA

• Region

  WESTERN AUSTRALIA

• Alcohol

  14.5%

• Product code

  14MAR1B2009

• Availability

  20 cases

• Grape Variety

  100% Pinot Noir

Tasting Notes

Vinification Details.

Individual handpicked parcels of fruit were transported by refrigerated trailer to the Denmark winery. The chilled bunches were hand sorted to remove damage, disease and leaf then gently de-stemmed to open fermenters. Pre-fermentation cold soaking for five days was used to extract maximum colour and optimise fruit flavour.

Spontaneous fermentation was used as this allows the natural yeast population to dominate the yeast population making for a more complex base wine. The ferment size was 1 or 4T and all were handplunged and pumped over from two to four times per day. This cap management varies according to the individual ferment needs. Post fermentation skin maceration was used for up to five weeks to build structure and palate weight.

The separate parcels were matured for seven months in French barriques with around a 45% new oak component.

Maturation: 7 months in 45% new barriques, 55% seasoned.

Producer Information

Marchand & Burch is a unique partnership between Burgundian winemaker Pascal Marchand (previously at Domaine de la Vougeraie) and Jeff Burch from Australian winery Howard Park. This is their first vintage; where Old World meets New World for the creation of two fabulous wines! In 2006, they identified vineyard blocks in the South West of Western Australia, and their aim has since been to work the natural environment and craft wines that best express the soils from which they come from. By adopting the biodynamic approach, the winemaking process is traditional yet modern, with minimal intervention, allowing the wines to become true expressions of their natural source.