Seifried Nelson Pinot Noir 2024

Vineyard: Seifried Brightwater vineyard
Sugar at Harvest: 23.6°Brix
Date of Harvest: Mid - Late March 2024
pH of Wine: 3.62
T.A of Wine: 6.5g/L
Suitable for Vegetarians and Vegans: Yes

Our Brightwater vines are grown in an extremely stony area of the vineyard where water and nutrient levels are low. This helps us to restrict plant vigour and to crop at low levels. Our Brightwater vineyard is situated 15 km from the coast and is sheltered from the south by the Richmond ranges. The ‘soil’ is a combination of rocks and boulders which is very hard on farm equipment but vital for holding the warmth of Nelson’s sun and for ripening the Pinot Noir grapes.

The fruit in our 2024 Seifried Nelson Pinot Noir comes from our Brightwater vineyards where the Pinot Noir vines are well over twenty years in age and are showing great maturity and depth of flavour.

Parcels of fruit were picked incrementally in March 2024 at the peak of flavour and phenolic ripeness. The de-stemmed fruit had a brief cold maceration period before individual parcels were inoculated for fermentation. Throughout fermentation plunging occurred twice daily and was tapered off to once daily as the fermentation neared completion. The young wine was drained to new, one and two-year-old French barriques for malolactic fermentation and barrel ageing. The wine was stabilised and bottled in November 2024.