Country: New Zealand
Region: Martinborough
Vintage: 2024
Variety: Pinot Noir
Alcohol volume: 13.0
Closure: Screwcap

Appearance
Ruby red colour with dark magenta hues.

Aroma
Aromas of ripe strawberries, cherries and red liquorice jump from the glass accompanied by hints of dried lavender and blackcurrant.

Palate
The palate is plush and fruit driven. Flavours of strawberries and red cherries fill the mouth and finish with dusty cocoa powder-like tannin. Immediately drinkable, enjoy this wine in its youth.

Vintage notes
A warm dry season moderated by cool nights allowed for gradual and unhindered ripening of fruit. A great year.

Vinification
90% destemmed, 10% whole bunch. Fermented in a combination of French oak cuves and open top stainless steel tanks.

Best In Show
97 Points
Of the six Pinot Noirs from New Zealand to feature in our Top 50 selections since 2018, this is the third to come from Wairarapa’s Martinborough (the other three, unsurprisingly, have been Central Otago wines). This is an uncompromisingly dark wine that plays to New Zealand’s strengths in terms of purity and vivacity of fruit: raspberry, cherry and plum come streaming from the glass, and the fine meshing of fruit and oak in this wine adds to its lustre and appeal. In the mouth, the wine is both long and broad but not in any way clumsy, and the fruit flavours (raspberry to the fore again) are hypnotic. Svelte tannins are barely palpable, so there’s no textural barrier to entry.

Double Gold
98 Points
Juicy dark-black fruits, red cherry, strawberry and hints of clove and forest floor. Silky and precise on the palate, it delivers layers of cherries, plums and raspberry with dried herbs and oak spice. Smooth sailing on an elegant and earthy finish. Delicious now, further reward with age.