Brimming with flavours of ripe berry fruit and savoury notes
A beautifully balanced wine, with well intergrated fruit flavours
Enjoy on its own, or match with duck, lamb, venison and veal dishes.
Clearwater Cove South Island Pinot Noir 2016
Clearwater Cove South Island Pinot Noir 2016
Description
This Pinot Noir is brimming with flavours of ripe berry fruit and savoury notes, which integrate well creating a beautifully balanced wine.
Along the length of our North and South Islands, the cool clear waters of the Pacific Ocean carve deep natural coves into the landscape. Intriguing for its unrivalled tranquility, this spectacular eastern coastline of New Zealand is also renowned for its exceptional wines. In these beautiful, but harsh, conditions our vines struggle for survival, producing low yields of high quality fruit with concentrated flavour’s.
The 2016 growing season started out incredibly dry, with some predicting a severe drought. Fortunately some unseasonal rains in February set the vines up for a great final ripening period. March and April were very consistent, with warm and dry weather experienced throughout Marlborough allowing a harvest that wasn’t dictated by the weather. All varieties were able to be picked at optimal ripeness and in good time. Conditions over the flowering period were reasonably stable creating nice even crop levels in the vineyards, which has transferred into wines of great concentration and texture. The low yielding vines were harvested at optimal ripeness. The parcels were cold were inoculated with selected yeasts to enhance varietal character. A fast, hot fermentation proceeded with regular plunging which has helped to craft a wine with elegance and balance. The parcels were gently pressed off after fermentation, and aged with French oak while undergoing malolactic fermentation. The wine was then blended, stabilised and filtered prior to bottling.
Food Pairing: Enjoy on its own, or match with duck, lamb, venison and veal dishes.
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