Museum Release. Each year, the Hooper family set aside some Museum stock for extended cellaring, to be released when they deem each wine to be in a great place. Over the years, we have embraced their generosity and been rewarded with striking, mature and perfectly cellared wines. We are pleased to once again offer a slice of Bannockburn history. The 2013 Estate was drawn from Bannockburn’s cadre of Pinot Noir vineyards—planted in 1976, 1997 and 2007—including some fruit from the iconic, close-planted blocks. All the sites have volcanic loam and dark clay over a limestone base and are planted to various clones, mainly MV6 with a smattering of the Dijon (or Bernard) clones 114, 115 and 777. The fruit fermented with 100% whole bunches and matured for 18 months in a combination of barriques, hogsheads and puncheons, of which 30% were new.