When talking about wines, then you also have to talk about the winery that produces them and the region that birthed both into the world. One of the more popular wines in the world is the Pinot Noir and Yarra Valley Wineries are just another region that specializes in cultivating and creating it.
The red wine grape variety Pinot Noir is of the Vitis vinifera species. The Pinot Noir name is also the name of the wines created from the red wine grape variety. This grape variety is grown almost around the world with cool climates. It is also rampant in the Burgundy region of France. It’s now one of the more widespread red grape strains planted and harvested by Yarra Valley Wineries.
Some Yarra Valley Wineries also cultivate the Pinot Noir grape. The regional vineyards have just the right mixture of cool climate, terroir and the loving tending of the wine estates that make this grape variety develop into an award winning wine.
Pinot Noir has infamously garnered a reputation. It is unpredictable to cultivate and create into an acceptable wine. Here’s a quick rundown of the complexities a Wine Maker will come across when cultivating the grapes in a vineyard:
- Delicate to the exposure if light
- Cropping levels
- Soil Variety
- Cutting Style
- Susceptible to fermentation techniques
- Susceptible to Yeast Varieties
- Hints of the terroir is added strongly
- Highly susceptible to bunch rot and other fungal diseases
- The Vines are easily beset by downy mildew, leaf roll and fanleaf.
For Yarra Valley Wineries, this is just a possible guideline that can help them in growing the Pinot Noirs and then coax them to become the award winning wines they were meant to be. From the errors experienced by other people over history, the vine caretakers and wine makers around the globe have developed unique methods specific to the Pinot Noir. Grape growing and wine making will last through the tests of time and nature with current scientific breakthroughs in the study of chemicals and living things.
Indeed, even though the Pinot Noir is the most complex to cultivate, it is nonetheless a very popular grape variety that captures the hearts of all with it’s taste.