CLOS HENRI ESTATE PINOT NOIR 2024

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"Here at Clos Henri, we are fortunate to cultivate vines on a single vineyard ‘domaine’. Our Estate wines are crafted as homage to the diversity of the vineyard terroirs, being made from an assemblage of different parcels from our three soils. We hope to transport you to our Estate, with these wines which celebrate the best of our vineyards with elegant minerality and offer a pure expression of Marlborough.

This is a captivating blend of elegance and boldness. Offering notes of raspberries, delicate baking spices and a touch of violet on the nose; the palate follows harmoniously with juicy and bright red fruit flavours, intertwined with ripe cherry and red doris plums. Overall, the 2024 is a stand-out vintage of our Estate Pinot Noir, with a satisfying and lengthy finish. This is a vintage to drink now or keep for up to 8 years.

After harvest, bunches are carefully sorted and between 10 -20% is kept as whole cluster while the rest is destemmed before being transferred under gravity into large stainless steel open top tanks, with no crushing. After spending a week cold soaking, natural fermentation begins. We are looking for light extraction through gentle pump overs and avoiding plunging to rely on alcoholic extraction. Fermentation and Post-fermentation maceration can last up to three weeks. The wine is then aged in large (7,500 l) French Oak vats for 11 months. Ageing in large oak vats, instead of smaller barrels, gives the wine great balance with subtle oak which enriches structure while retaining aromatic intensity and brightness."