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"ripe fruit flavours layer with balanced oak to give a velvety mouth feel and long compelling finish"
4 stars (86/100 Points): Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
"A youthful Pinot with lifted aromas showing raspberry, dark cherry, spice and floral. The palate is juicy and rounded with fine/firm tannins providing a pleasant dry finish. And this firmness is ideal in partnering food, both light and full-flavoured. At its best: now to 2014". Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Ruby red in colour with flashes of purple and a vibrant nose of dark berries, coffee and spice. A full bodied pinot, showing flavours of black cherries, plums and thyme. The fine tannins and ripe fruit flavours layer with balanced oak to give a velvety mouth feel and long compelling finish. WINEMAKER – ROD MCDONALD.
The most continental climate of New Zealand’s regions, Central Otago enjoys hot days and cool nights. Although short, the growing season is extremely intense; hot summer days, low rainfall and dry shale based soils mean the vineyards are dependent on careful irrigation management.
Hand harvested, 100% de-stemmed with a high portion of whole berries in the ferment. The must was rested on skin for around 7 days cold soaking to maximize the colour intensity and stability. The grapes then started fermentation and were hand plunged several times per day while the temp rose to in excess of 30°C . This all helps to achieve the extraction and flavour profile we’re after. After pressing, the wine was rested, maturing in oak until spring when malolactic fermentation was complete. The wine was then blended, lightly fined and filtered to bottle.
** Competition ends June 30th 2012 **