FRAMINGHAM, PINOT NOIR

Andrew Hedley’s Framingham Wines derives its name from the village of Framingham, located in Southern Norfolk in the UK. This small village was the ancestral home of the Company’s founder, Rex Brooke-Taylor.
The first vineyards were planted in the early 1980’s on stony, free draining river bed soils of the Estate just outside Renwick. The original vines are believed to be the first to be planted on phylloxera resistant rootstock.

2007 Framingham Marlborough Pinot Noir is blended from several base wines made from low cropped, well exposed grapes harvested from six different sites around Marlborough’s Wairau Valley. Different clones and soil profiles each contribute to complexity and structure in the finished wine. The fruit was harvested by hand and gently crushed and destemmed into stainless steel open top fermenters in the winery. These musts were held cold for 5-8 days to promote aqueous extraction of fine fruit tannins. Plunging was carried out 3 to 4 times per day during fermentation and temperatures were allowed to peak at around 30C. Once fermentation was complete, the wines were drained and pressed from the skins quickly. These wines underwent malolactic fermentation and 10 months maturation in a mixture of new and seasoned French barriques. After maturation, the selected wines were blended, fined, filtered and bottled under screwcap to preserve freshness, flavour and integrity.