2025 Skypunch Pinot Gris
Grown at Skypunch vineyard, our friend's vineyard on the slope next to Home vineyard. We're leasing and managing Julianne and Conor's vineyard here and have been glad to help them certify the farm organic.
Preserved lemon and flint, early pear and and spice. Supple texture, vibrant fruit, with a saline tension. Dry. Unfined and unfiltered.
- Skypunch, a friend's north-northwest-facing clay slope beside Home, leased by Black Estate since 2023.
- Whole bunch pressed, fermented in seasoned 500 L puncheons with a Skypunch starter, 7 months on lees.
- Dry, with preserved lemon, flint, pear and ginger and a saline tension.
- Vineyard area
- 1.98 hectares
- Clones
- Barrie and 2-15 clones
- Formats
- 750ml; 375ml (separate product page skypunch-pinot-gris-2025-375ml)
Tasting Notes
White gold hue. Vibrant aroma of spice, baked pear, and ginger. The palette has rich fruit with underlying mouth filling phenolics and vibrant saline finish. This is an unfiltered wine with small amounts of sediment. Please allow the bottle to st and and settle before pouring. Decanting will allow maximum expression of aroma and purity of fruit to emerge. Drink now to 2032.
Vineyard
Vineyard
The Skypunch Vineyard is located 6 kilometres North East of the Waipara Junction, in the Omihi sub-district of Waipara Valley, North Canterbury. This is a north-northwest facing sedimentary clay fan on a gentle hill side slope, just to the west of our Home Block. The soils are mainly Awapuni clay with calcium carbonate deposits. This vineyard is in conversion to becoming certified Organic and BioDynamic. The Pinot Gris vineyard is 1.98 hectares with Barrie and 2-15 clones. This vineyard is leased by Black Estate and managed by our vineyard team.
Winemaking
Fermentation
Whole bunch pressed. Juice settled for 24 hours then racked to seasoned 500L puncheons for fermentation. Yeast propagated from a vineyard starter from the Skypunch Vineyard. 7 months lees contact before blending and bottling. 45ppm Sulphur Dioxide added. Unfined and unfiltered. Bottled on November 13 2024.
Distributed in Australia by Principal Wine.