Finca Dofí, Álvaro Palacios, Priorat, Spain 2023 vs Prophet's Rock Infusion Pinot Noir 2019

Prophet's Rock Infusion Pinot Noir 2019

' The grapes are hand-picked from one block that sits adjacent to Lake Dunstan on the Rocky Point Vineyard in Bendigo. This block is warm and early ripening, free draining, with predominantly schist soils on a steep northerly-facing slope. Extensive canopy and crop management is carried out during the growing season to ensure the grapes attained full physiological ripeness with great concentration, aromatics, and flavour. Yields are kept low and do not exceed 38hl/ha or 5t/ha. The fruit is handpicked early in the morning at low temperatures and destemmed into a small tank. The grapes then ˜infuse' in the juice, gently extracting colour and flavour over 10-14 days. When the indigenous ˜wild' ferment is about to start, the tank is pressed to neutral oak barrels for fermentation. After fermentation, the wine in matured on its yeast lees until bottling without going through malolactic fermentation to preserve freshness. The wine is bottled under screw-cap. Our winemaking aims to be an exercise in understanding and translating our stunning sites into wine as accurately as possible with a minimum of winery signature. This engaging wine has great purity and freshness with lovely structure that makes for versatile food matches. On the vineyard it is our absolute favourite wood-fired pizza wine. Enjoyable in its youth and developing more savoury complexity over 5-7 years from vintage. 273 cases were made. '