Both the Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris are planted on the Southern section of the
vineyard. This has the highest elevation and produces extra heat accumulation and less frost risk. The Pinot Noir is closely planted to reduce vigour and enable lower per vine yields enabling the fruit to achieve the physiological ripeness we were looking for in our Rosé. The Pinot Noir blocks were chosen based on three of Mt Beautiful’s oldest (Block M, N and X) that are planted with a mixture of clones (115, 5, 6, Mariafeld, Abel) and combined with one of our young vine blocks planted with 115, 667, 5, Abel, 10/5, 777, 943. What this offers in the Rosé is a wonderful medley of clones and a true vineyard blend. Each clone offers something different – fruit flavour, spiciness, savoury notes and acidity.
The Pinot Gris planted on a North facing slope consists of the Berrysmith, Orvaille and GN 2-21 clones giving slight differences in their flavour profiles and were harvested at the same time as the Pinot Noir as the key to this blend is the co-fermentation of both varieties providing complementary roles of aromatics and phenolic mouthfeel to the wine.