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RAPAURA SPRINGS ROHE AWATERE VALLEY PINOT NOIR 2021

Product Code: 7104
Country: New Zealand
Region: Marlborough
Sub Region: Awatere Valley
Style: Red
Variety: Pinot Noir
Producer: Rapaura Springs

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 13.5%
Grape: 100% Pinot Noir

Original price was: $40.99.Current price is: $34.99.

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Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"This elegant Pinot Noir has lifted floral aromatics, with layers of red cherry, cassis and blueberry. The pure fruit flavours are balanced with subtle spice, savoury fruit tannins, texture and juicy acidity.

The soils in the Awatere are complex, encompassing a matrix of shallow to moderately deep silty loams, with pockets of sand, gravel and clay on higher terraces. The sub-region is drier and cooler with plenty of low vigour sites, well suited to Pinot Noir."

Rated Excellent & 94/100 Cameron Douglas MS, September 2022 (2021 Vintage)
"Flavours of black cherry and dark plum, dried herb and a savoury core, flavours of barrel spice and youthful tannins combine with acidity to form a backbone of structure. As the wine opens up and relaxes flavours of black currant and wood smoke emerge to combine with the flavours of plum and cherry to showcase a youthful modern expression with a crunchy texture and lengthy finish. Well made, young and needing some cellar time. Best drinking from 2024 through 2030."

5 Stars & 94/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, September 2022 (2021 Vintage)
"A beautifully refined expression, showing sweet cherry, floral, thyme and roasted nut characters on the nose with hints of mushroom and clove. It's wonderfully smooth and flowing in the mouth offering fleshy texture and beautifully melded tannins. Gorgeously elegant and complex. At its best: now to 2028."

5 Stars & 18.5+/20 (94) Candice Chow, Raymond Chan Reviews, September 2022 (2021 Vintage)
"Deep ruby-red, even colour throughout. The nose is softly full and herbaceous, with aromas of thyme and tea leaf entwined with blackberry, strawberry and sweet floral. Medium-bodied, nuances of blackberry and strawberry intermixed thyme, tea leaf, earth and a suggestion of liquorice root. The red and black fruit shows elegance and purity, herbaceous details enrich alongside earthy nuance. The mouthfeel is silky with delicate, supple tannins; lacy acidity lightens up the broody herbaceous elements. This elegant, pretty Pinot Noir shows lovely fruit and herb with depth and a fine-textured mouthfeel. Match with lamb and duck over the next 5+ years. Handpicked, cold-soaked for 5 days, fermented with a small portion of whole bunches to 13.5% alc, aged 10 months in French oak, 12% new oak."

4 ½ Stars Michael Cooper (2021 Vintage)
"Bright ruby, the 2021 vintage is a fresh, vigorous, medium to full-bodied red, with good richness of vibrant cherry, plum and spice flavours, a hint of herbs, finely integrated oak, and supple tannins. Full of youthful freshness and drive, it's well worth cellaring to 2024+."

4 Stars Yvonne Lorkin, September 2022 (2021 Vintage)
"Prepare for a huge lift of bay leaf, black tea, mixed spice, rhubarb and tamarillo – all things bright and beautiful essentially. In the mouth, it has a red apple and dusty cherry complexity, a creamy mouthfeel and a savoury, spice-driven core. The tannins are softly chewy and display attractive grip and cling and they accentuate and extend its already lengthy finish."

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Rapaura Springs operates four vineyards: The Springs Vineyard on their home property, Bull Paddock Vineyard at Dillons Point, Blind River Vineyard South of Awatere, and Riverside Estate Vineyard on the banks of the Opawa River in Lower Wairau.
The vineyards grow Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Verdelho, and Chardonnay grapes.
Rapaura Springs is owned and operated in Marlborough by two families, the Wiffins and the Neylons. The Neylons were pioneers in the commercial production of green lipped mussels before partnering with the Wiffins in establishing vineyards.
Rapaura Springs was very proud to have achieved their goal of making Wine Spectator's Top 100 Wines list in 2021. Their Classic Sauvignon Blanc made it to number 41 out of 100, from a pool of over 12,500 entrants!
In 2018 Rapaura Springs purchased the Blind River Vineyard to develop Chardonnay and Pinot Noir offerings.
Rapaura Springs is committed to sustainability, investing in advanced irrigation infrastructure and water purification systems. Grape marc composting, cover crops and livestock grazing also support sustainability efforts.