Swinging Bridge Hill Park Block 4 Pinot Noir 2023 (75cl, 12.5%)

Swinging Bridge Hill Park Block 4 Pinot Noir 2023 is a red wine from Orange, New South Wales. The fruit is handpicked and destemmed without rollers to maintain as many whole berries as possible, then cold soaked for three days before fermentation. It is plunged twice daily, pressed at the end of ferment with some residual sugar from whole berries, and transferred to barrel to finish ferment and malolactic fermentation. The wine is sulfured at the end of ferment and left in barrel for eight months. The oak is predominantly puncheons with 20% new and a mixture of tonneliers. The wine is kept separate in clones to the end of ferment, then blended together to best showcase the vintage and the region. Cellaring potential is 5-10 years.