CHAPTER CONTENTS INDEX
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00:00 - What is the difference between massal selection and clonal selection?
02:48 - The Wine of the Day: Mother Rock Carbonic Pinot Noir
03:08 - The Legend of Dijon Clone 115
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TASTING NOTES
👃🏼 - The vanguard carries lovely explosive notes of raspberries, rose petals, potting soil, dried leaves, strawberry fruit pastilles, a hint of lavender & some herbal fennel. Supremely engaging!
👄 - On the palate there is an equally broad range of flavours; sweeter strawberry fruit chews, pomegranate, cherry candy and sherbet, alongside vibrant, sour cherry. Lovely juicy affair, with very fine tannins. Still, it has a grip to it. It's light and nimble, but not silky. A lovely hint of citrus on the tail. Ripe blood orange perhaps.
TECHNICAL SPECS
🔬 - Wine of Origin Elgin. 100% Pinot Noir. 115 Dijon clone. 5 Tons/ha yield.
All of the grapes are grown from one single vineyard in Elgin forming part of the South Cape region. The vineyard was planted in 2000, 3500 vines per hectare with rows North to South. As of 2013, we have been practising more organically farmed methods with no chemicals sprayed on the vines and soils. Soils are mostly “Koue Bokkeveld” shale with Table Mountain sandstone and clay as building blocks at an altitude of 320m with southwest facing slopes.
Grapes were picked at 21 balling, and placed into a steel tank for ten days. CO2 was pumped over the grapes, and the fruit was worked reductively until pressing. When the time came to press the juice, however, Meyer used a lot of aggressive aeration to blow off those traditional bubblegum carbonic notes. A fairly generous 800 litres per ton of juice was recovered, which in some ways explains the tannic structure of the wine.
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