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Although it was purchased in 2003, Quealy’s home vineyard was initially planted in 1982, making this Balnarring vineyard one of Mornington’s oldest Pinot Noir sites. Just 17 rows of MV6 Pinot Noir from that era remain, lending their old-vine fruit to Quealy’s flagship Pinot Noir. The entire vineyard is on a gentle north-facing slope, on shallow loams over clay. These vines have been certified organic since 2019.
Fruit for 2022 was 100% destemmed and fermented in a single 2.5-tonne stainless-steel vat. It was sparingly plunged by hand, about once a day and perhaps twice when fermentation was at its peak. The wine was lightly pressed to French hogsheads (equal parts new, one- and two-year-old oak), where it spent a little over 12 months without being moved. It was racked and bottled after an eight-week rest in stainless steel.