LAWSON’S DRY HILLS PINOT NOIR 2022

Winery notes (2022 Vintage)
"This wine highlights all that is great about Pinot Noir – lovely bright fruit with an elegant, supple mouthfeel and beautifully balanced. The nose has tempting raspberry and cherry aromas with a touch of spicy, sweet French oak. The palate echoes these characters, wrapping them up in a lovely soft, yet juicy texture.

This wine is a mix of Clone 5 and 777 from one of our premium Pinot Noir sites, the Barnsley Vineyard. Based in the Waihōpai Valley, the clay soils help develop this wine’s flavour and texture. The vines are carefully tended to ensure low crops and ripe, flavoursome grapes in top condition.

The grapes were gently crushed and the juice run into small, open-top fermenters and held cold for five days’ maceration. The vats were then inoculated with a specially selected, cultured yeast to trigger fermentation. During fermentation the wines were either hand-plunged or pumped over to gently extract colour, tannin and flavour. The resulting wines were left on skins for around seven days post-ferment before pressing to predominantly old French oak barriques (just 2.5% new). The wine was blended after ten months maturation in barrel."

5 Stars & 93/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, June 2026 (2022 Vintage)
"It's beautifully maturing with complexity, the bouquet reveals dark cherry, wild strawberry, cured meat, warm mushroom, and toasted almond characters. It's silky-smooth and beautifully rounded on the palate, displaying sweet fruit flavours with savoury nuances. It's soothing and delightfully comforting. At its best: now to 2027."