Freshly baked bread, sweet pie crust, roast almond and nougat notes are accompanied by fresh lime, white peach, coriander and lemongrass on the nose. This is a powerful wine with strong pinot noir presence adding spice and length to the refined, elegant and seamless finish. The palate is generous and mouth filling with toasted pine nut and freshly buttered toast yeast autolysis notes. Great persistence, texture and extension are offered by the crisp and bold pinot noir characters perfectly balanced with elegant cool climate chardonnay in this outstanding Yarra Valley wine.

The fruit for the 2005 Yarra Valley Brut was sourced from our own Green Point Vineyard and others in the Yarra Valley. Fruit was predominantly sourced from the alluvial soils of the Yarra Valley floor providing great richness and depth of flavour. Fruit was also sourced from vineyards in the Upper Yarra where the cooler conditions provide more delicate and fragrant characteristics with a tighter acid structure The vineyards are trained to the standard vertical shoot positioning trellis to minimise the development of phenolics and tannins whilst maintaining excellent ripening and vibrancy of flavour.

Individual parcels of pinot noir and chardonnay were gently pressed and chilled to stainless steel tanks for cold settling. The fine cuvée juices were racked off the juice lees and fermented in tank. When the primary fermentation was complete, the individual base wines were stabilised and settled. Over a four week period during June and July 2005, the individual cuvées were assessed before the blends were carefully tasted and assembled, with the final wine consisting of 18 individual base wines. After secondary fermentation and ageing on the lees for forty months, the bottles were carefully riddled and disgorged, and a small amount of dosage was added after disgorging to balance the wine. The bottles were then sealed with a crown seal and aged for a further three months in our cellars prior to release. The final blend comprises 40% chardonnay and 60% pinot noir. A limited release wine with production of only 500 cases.