Estate
Hurley Vineyard ‘Estate’
Hurley Vineyard Pinot Noir is estate grown and made. The “Estate” wine is a barrel selection of fruit from the single sites that is declassified according to each vintage.
Hurley Vineyard wraps around the north-east crest of a little volcanic hill. It has three climats: Lodestone, Hommage and Garamond. It is sunlit and airy but protected from the wind by the surrounding topography
We owe our terroir to fire and water – the fire of the Silurian volcanos and the waters of the Southern Ocean, the Tasman Sea and the Port Phillip and Western Port Bays. The volcanos provided our soil – which is very dark reddish-brown in colour and very fine sandy clay-loam in texture. Full of ironstone, it is free-draining and moisture retentive. The ocean, sea and two bays - which the Mornington Peninsula runs between - moderate our climate and keep it even and cool.
Hurley Vineyard is at 90 m altitude in the south-eastern lowland hills of the Peninsula in a sub-region formed by Balnarring and Merricks. It has a rainfall of about 750 mm annually, with 350 mm or so falling in the growing season. This is beautiful terroir for growing Pinot Noir.
The low yielding vines at Hurley Vineyard are non- irrigated, spur-pruned and vertically shoot positioned. The yield is about 1 kg/m (about 1.5t/a). Our vineyard practices are organic. Our focus is on pure expression of the terroir of each of the single vineyards. Depending on the vintage conditions the wine is made from the single vineyards, and in some years a blended estate is made. The single vineyard wines are named by the vineyard from which they come - Lodestone, Hommage or Garamond. The estate blend has the name Estate.
Harcourt – a tete-de-cuvee- was made in 2006.
