"Brightly expressed & immediately appealing" Wine Orbit
"Succulent palate with juicy fruit intensity, finishing smooth & comforting" Wine Orbit
Enjoy with a juicy beef or venison steak with a balsamic jus & garlic roasted vegetables
Mystery Wairarapa Pinot Noir 2018
Black Market Mystery Wines™ are simply wines we love, with the branding hidden and revealed only when it arrives at your door!
Mystery Wairarapa Pinot Noir 2018
Accolades
Awarded Gold Medal & 95/100 Points
International Cool Climate Wine Show 2019
Awarded 91/100 Points & 4.5 Stars
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Feb 2019
Awarded 90/100 Points
Decanter Wine Awards 2019
Description
"Youthful and delightfully charming, the inviting bouquet shows raspberry, dark plum, floral and spice aromas, followed by a succulent palate that is beautifully rounded and supple. The wine is brightly expressed and immediately appealing with juicy fruit intensity, finishing smooth and comforting. At its best: now to 2022" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Feb 2019
"Elegant style with an earthy leafy character to the wine. Good length, with a complex grippy tannin. And juicy acidity and silky texture" International Cool Climate Wine Show 2019
This is a lively, light, young Pinot. Bright, ripe and fragrant, the inviting bouquet shows dark plum, blueberry, raspberry and floral characters with subtle spicy complexity. The palate is fruited and rounded, and offers strong fruit richness and intensity, supporting a silky texture and fine tannins. Perfect for drinking now, or over the next four years.
The fruit for this Mystery wine was sourced from the winemakers home vineyard in Wairarapa. The stony free draining soils and cool dry climate are ideal for growing fine Pinot Noir. The vineyard is planted in several different clones which gives a diverse fruit resource to work with. The naturally low yields are complimented by intensive canopy management and crop thinning to ensure even ripening of small bunches of clean concentrated fruit.
The grapes are harvested in small batches according to clone and vineyard block and are processed separately to maintain their individual characteristics. The fruit was destemmed into open top fermenters and a range of cap management techniques were used, including cold soak, punch down, and pump over to extract the goodness from the fruit. After an average of 21 days on skins the wine was pressed off to tanks and barrels where malolactic fermentation ensued. After spending the winter months maturing on lees to marry the oak and wine, the blend was assembled and prepared for bottling.
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Excellent wine for the price, really pleased....went back for 2 more cases!
Scott - 28/05/2020
First time tried on mystery wine. Am pleasantly surprised with it. Another case on its way!
Shaoping - 22/05/2020
Really nice wine. Have had this one before but didn’t realise it was what I was buying. A pleasant surprise though :)
Nadia - 20/05/2020
Excellent Pinot Noir. Enjoying every drop
Meredith - 18/04/2020
Great service
Glenys - 05/04/2020
Very delicious, excellent price - this really is $23.99 elsewhere! I googled it. Such great value I ordered another case
Tim - 05/09/2019
This was a great wine, hopefully we get it again, otherwise it would be nice to see it listed as one of your normal products.
Aaron - 26/08/2019
The is an absolutely awesome buy. Great price brilliant taste
Mark - 06/08/2019
This it the second time have had this same mystery wine and we love it, one of the nicest Pinot Noirs outside of central Otago.
Michael - 28/06/2019
Great value wine, won’t last long in this house.
Peter - 16/06/2019
Really pleasing Pinot Noir. Mellow and smooth in a medium style. Lovely nose.
Derek - 14/06/2019
Very nice wine, smooth and tastes as though it will age very well. For a young wine it tastes very well developed and as good as some older high market wines at a fraction of the cost, will order again
Rebecca - 09/06/2019
An amazing wine for the price. Medium-bodied, but full of sexy Pinot Noir flavour. An ideal match for those first duck breasts coming in soon!
Schalk - 02/05/2019
Matariki do a pleasant pinot usually. This 2018 is up there with the best.
John - 12/07/2020
Enjoyable wine
Stephnie - 11/06/2020
Easy to drink, plums, soft and fruity. Will buy again.
Max - 08/05/2020
Good all round wine
H - 27/04/2020
Easy drinking good value Pinot
Juliet - 21/04/2020
Excellent drinking
Nicki - 06/04/2020
Lovely Pinot :-)
Jenny - 18/11/2019
This is the second time around for this lovely Pinot Noir. There will be a third time I'm sure.
David - 31/10/2019
Staff are loving this
Tania - 30/08/2019
excellent value for money
Chris - 24/08/2019
Very young,very easily drinkable.Not your average p.noir-reminds me of the Loire reds like Chinon,
Ian - 08/08/2019
delicious pure natural flavours of lifted dark plum and cherry aromas with a hint of spiced oak. Thank you.
Larry Raynor - 25/06/2019
Pleasant pinot noir, quite light but good value at this price.
Peter - 22/06/2019
A great P Noir Do you have more? Cheers Rob
Rob - 17/06/2019
Good colour and depth. Think it will be even better with another year in the rack
Pam - 10/06/2019
really enjoyed.slightly lighter and softer than use to with local pinot's.so a winner great for a change
Penny - 09/06/2019
4.5 stars
Peter - 09/06/2019
very nice great flavour definitely be getting some more
John - 30/05/2019
Just a pass mark, I have always preferred South Island pinots, this wine doesn't change that.
Ian - 19/05/2020
3.5 stars from me. Enjoyable and good value but a little light for my taste.
Russell - 31/03/2020
A little green and simple I thought, though most here disagree (did we drink the same wine?). But bob campbell agrees with me.
Glenn - 06/11/2019
Nice wine. A bit light for my tase
Alan - 30/10/2019
A nice wine, with a fruity flavour.
Leslie - 08/06/2019
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