Moss Wood’s 2023 Pinot Noir set to be a ripper!

In the latest newsletter from Moss Wood winery, we learn that the 2023 vintage of Pinot Noir is going to be a ripper! See the below comments made by Moss Wood winery;

Vintage started in earnest on Thursday 23rd February, with our first two batches of 2023 Moss Wood Pinot Noir being handpicked. All told, we harvested 4 tonnes of grapes, off two of Moss Wood’s three Pinot Noir blocks. The grapes were picked into buckets, which were then tipped into half-tonne bins and transported to the winery. The fruit was weighed and then destemmed and hand-sorted and we kept 20% of the bunches aside as the whole-bunch component of the fermentation. After sorting, the berries were transferred to two four-tonne, open-fermenters. The must was then chilled to 6°C and maintained there for a 3-day cold-soaking period to extract colour and tannin from the skins. Following the cold-soak, the two Pinot batches were inoculated for primary fermentation on Sunday 26th February. Since then, both have proceeded without issue. Colour and flavour extraction is by hand-plunging 3 times per day.

Hugh Mugford walks you through every step of the process of Moss Wood’s world class Pinot Noir here