Pressing Matters' Pinot Noir vines are still relatively young and yields have been kept to an absolute minimum (less than 2 tonnes per hectare) to allow them to properly establish and to ensure intensity of fruit flavours.
The Pinot Noir has been planted with a density of 4,200 vines per hectare. The Pinot clones are 114, 115, 777, D2V5, MV6 and D5V12. These have been planted on own roots and root stocks 101-14, SO4, and Teleki 5C.
The mixture of clones and rootstocks allows many potential permutations, producing wines of significant complexity.
New oak influence is kept to a minimum, with the 2008 vintage being the first one to utilize new oak (25%) and subsequent vintages having no more than 20% new oak. We use a variety of coopers namely: Bonnardot, Francois Freres and Seguin Moreau.
Great care is taken to ensure the grapes are picked at optimal ripeness with multiple picking dates. The fruit is sorted for quality and the must is hand screened on a sorting table before initial fermentation. Fermentation is started naturally with wild yeasts in ½ tonne fermenters. MLF is carried out naturally and completed in a few months. Wines are racked by gravity 2 to 3 times in their life. Pumps and minimal filtration is used only at bottling.