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Gold Medal – The National Wine Awards of Aotearoa New Zealand 2023
Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"A deep, ruby red Pinot Noir that opens with dark cherries and plum notes, hints of Asian spice and subtle floral characters. The palate has soft, juicy dark red fruit characters with spicy notes in the background. Fine, rounded tannins and ripe fruit leads to a long, velvety, and lingering finish.
The fruit was carefully hand sorted and destemmed (95%) before being transferred to small open top fermenters. The wine underwent a cool maceration for 4-7 days at 13-15°C before fermentation using indig enous yeasts. The wine was hand plunged daily and spent an average of 19 days on skins before being pressed. It was then aged for twelve months in French oak barrels (21% new). The wine has not been fined before bottling to retain structure and richness."
5 Stars & Number 2 Cuisine Pinot Noir Tasting, April 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"Deeply coloured, dense and brooding in the glass with sumptuous black fruit, concentrated currants, black cherries, herbs and spices on the nose. The palate is fleshy and generous with a smoky savoury toast character alongside forest floor and mixed spices. Concentrated and full but well balanced and long."
5 Stars & 95/100 Stephen Wong MW, The Real Review, August 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"Dark, serious purple fruit, verging on roasted cocoa with smoky wood notes. A dense, full nose but brooding at the moment, it hints at a powerful wine. Aromas of vanilla bean, cinnamon, blackberry and violet are coaxed reluctantly out of the glass. The palate enters oaky too, but with intense purple fruit, violet liqueur, plentiful late tannins and a sleek muscularity. With air a bit more emerges—juniper berry, seed spice. Very young, but impressively powerful and long and plenty of depth within. Ripe, structural tannins are richly coated in fruit and violets. This is destined to unfurl and gain in complexity for more than a decade as it increases in stature. Majestic stuff. "
