"A gorgeous complex offering" Wine Orbit
"Excellent fruit purity, seductive savoury nuances, finishing persistent & velvety" Wine Orbit
Delicious with casseroles, roasted meats, lentils & other earthy flavoured dishes
Mystery Reserve Marlborough Pinot Noir 2016 (01)
Black Market Mystery Wines™ are simply wines we love, with the branding hidden and revealed only when it arrives at your door!
This bottle contains approximately 8 standard drinks.
Mystery Reserve Marlborough Pinot Noir 2016 (01)
Accolades
Awarded 94/100 Points & 5 Stars
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Aug 2019
Awarded 17.5/20 Points
Raymond Chan, Apr 2018
Description
"A gorgeous complex offering; the inviting bouquet shows dark berry, smoked game, thyme, hazelnut and floral characters, leading to a succulent palate that is concentrated and beautifully flowing. The wine exhibits excellent fruit purity as well as seductive savoury nuances, finishing persistent and velvety. At its best: now to 2022" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Aug 2019
"Even ruby-red colour with some depth and light purple hues, a little paler edged. The nose is fresh and elegantly presented with gentle volume and piquant ethereal aromas of dark-red berry fruit, dark-red and violet florals and a layer of minerally reduction and fine, nutty oak. This has a taut core. Medium-bodied, the palate is fine and poised with fresh, vibrant, fragrant flavours of dark-red cherries and berries entwined with a complex amalgam of dark-red florals, minerally reduction and nutty oak. The fruit is succulent and the mouthfeel is vibrant, and enlivened by fresh acidity and supported by fine-grained, flowery tannins. This has an elegant core and line and carries to a sustained finish. This is an elegantly concentrated and refined Pinot Noir with vibrant, aromatic fruit along with complex reductive and oak notes. Match with roast duck, pork, lamb and beef over the next 5-6 years. A barrel selection wine. Clones 5, 115, 667 and 777, fruit from the company’s estate and neighbouring ‘Barnsley’ vineyards in the Waihopai Valley fermented., the wine aged 10 months in 25% new French oak barriques and puncheons" Raymond Chan, Apr 2018
A bright burgundy with good depth of colour in the glass. The nose offers dark cherry and plum with a fragrant vanilla and mocha oak note. This is a full, rich Pinot Noir with concentrated dark berry fruit flavours perfectly complimented by a touch of smooth spice. The palate has lovely length and fine tannins.
These grapes for this Mystery Wine were grown on vineyards where the soils are clay and silt loam layered over alluvial gravel. The clay in the soil gives this wine its generosity and mouthfeel. The vines are cropped at low levels which involves laying down only two short canes, shoot-thinning and fruit-thinning. The vines are carefully tended to ensure even ripeness and the grapes are picked when fully ripe but without any shrivelling.
The fruit is harvested into open-top fermenters where it undergoes a cold maceration before fermentation kicks off spontaneously. Winemakers have punched down by hand, three times a day to extract maximum flavour from the skins. Vats were left on skins between seven and twenty days post ferment, before pressing to a mixture of French oak barriques and puncheons (25% new). After ten months maceration, the best clones and barrels were selected for this wine.
Food Pairing: Casseroles and stews, roasted meats, lentils and other earthy flavoured dishes.
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This wine was incredibly tasty and at such an awesome price. If it was still available Id buy another 6!
Sara - 18/04/2020
very smooth
robert - 14/04/2020
Loved it that much I ordered a second box straight away
Antoinette - 13/04/2020
Very nice wine
Jim - 13/04/2020
Fantastic wine Great value for money
Joanne - 12/04/2020
A lovely drop, loads of flavour. Good price for such a pinot.
Jocasta - 10/04/2020
Excellent Value for money
Donna - 10/04/2020
Outstanding value, a full flavoured pinot which provided a superb combination with dried fruit and blue vein! Second case already purchased.
Ian - 09/04/2020
Excellent
David - 07/04/2020
Really nice wine ????
Tom - 07/04/2020
Fantastic
Helen - 04/04/2020
A top Pinot amour at a very good price.
Rob - 29/03/2020
Smooth, easy drinking pinot.
Kat - 26/03/2020
4 star pinot at a 5 star price! Would buy again. Dark fruit with a touch of smoke and mushroom. Complex and long. From a top winery.
Dave - 14/03/2020
Deliciously drinkable.
Susanne - 01/03/2020
Lighter in style but with beautiful floral tones, very French.
Hamish - 20/02/2020
Quite delicious. An evening spent savouring the taste then wishing I had bought more. Nice on its own rather than sharing with someone.
Paul - 30/01/2020
Love it, thank you
Yvonne - 19/01/2020
Immediately ordered more after drinking first bottle - excellent value at this price!
Jenness - 18/01/2020
very smooth
john - 18/01/2020
Great Value Pinot
Richard - 23/12/2019
Excellent wine great for dinner and after dinner.
Tom - 22/12/2019
Fabulous Pinot at this price point. About to order more.
Carne - 17/12/2019
A really enjoyable wine. Would definitely recommend.
Neville - 15/12/2019
It was gifted so will see if we get a report!
Jan - 24/11/2019
Absolutely lovely and good value at the price. So much so that I ordered another lot immediately.
Michael - 29/10/2019
Excellent Value for money
Sue - 23/10/2019
Excellent value - an exceptional pinot for this price.
Raeone - 13/10/2019
Superb
Chris - 12/10/2019
Brilliant value; a very smart pinot noir with lovely texture and nicely balanced acidity. With three years on its belt, some more complex characteristics are coming through. Unbelievably good buying.
Jannette - 08/10/2019
Extremely nice Pinot Noir - got multiple ticks in a blind tasting of good wines.
Henry - 07/10/2019
Excellent wine - very pleased I bought a dozen!
Janette - 29/09/2019
Lovely easy drinking wine - perfect at this price
Julie - 23/09/2019
Great value
Tony - 13/09/2019
Excellent value for money
Marilyn - 13/04/2020
Very pleasant
Jeanette - 12/04/2020
Delicious
Annette - 10/04/2020
Great value for money. Nice depth of flavour.
Alison - 08/04/2020
Not tried it yet
Keith - 08/04/2020
Pleasantly and most deliciously surprised in this mystery wine.
Eleanore - 08/04/2020
Great calue
Allan - 04/04/2020
For a mystery wine not bad.
Aaron - 03/04/2020
Excellent Pinot Noir for the price. Easy drinking.
Maxine - 03/04/2020
nice and easy to drink!
Rhys - 31/03/2020
Lovely Pinot
Chris - 11/03/2020
Great value and taste
Arnold - 24/02/2020
I am always reluctant to order more than 6 btls of Pinot Noir until I have tried it. After receiving this I reordered - double. Excellent value for money.
Bill - 23/02/2020
Very enjoyable
Andrea - 12/02/2020
yum yum so glad I risked the mystery box!
Susan - 09/02/2020
You’ll go a long way to find a better drop for the price
Peter - 24/01/2020
pleasantly pleasant
stuart - 23/01/2020
Love this wine!
Robyn - 21/01/2020
Enough complexity to hold your interest, and eminently quaffable.
Ross - 19/01/2020
Excellent value for money. tastes light on the tongue, yet with deep, rich flavours
Win - 24/12/2019
A nice drop, good value
John - 23/12/2019
Very easy drinking. Velvety texture. Enjoyable.
Bryce - 13/12/2019
Drinking very well A bold PN with good finish on the palette Do you still have stocks of the 2016? Cheers Rob
Rob - 18/11/2019
Great value
Russell - 25/10/2019
Delish, quaffable drop!
Kim - 25/10/2019
Finish not quit as round and smooth as I would like
Allan - 07/10/2019
Excellent wine
Leon - 03/10/2019
Good value
Paul - 01/10/2019
Pleasantly surprised and excellent value
John - 22/09/2019
Very drinkable
Robert - 16/09/2019
the first bottle showed Brettanomycetes, a gamy character. Has nice deep red floral characters, deeper than red roses. Nice wine if you like a floral style.
Lance - 16/09/2019
Certainly an interesting complex, dark, slightly smokey, smooth mature wine. Oak and dark berries predominate. Fruit flavours are a little scarse.
Alan - 12/09/2019
Superb accompaniment for a spicy meat dish. Excellent quality.
Richard - 11/09/2019
Great value and quality at this price point
Geoff - 09/09/2019
An oustanding wine, full bodied and flavousome
Geoff - 09/09/2019
Great taste easy drinking good value for money
Brett - 09/09/2019
Well made. Doesn't have great depth but a pleasant drop and good value.
NEIL - 07/09/2019
Decent buy, nothing exceptional, but a good plonk during lockdown.
michael - 14/04/2020
Not bad, have had better
Brenda - 10/04/2020
Pleasant quaffing wine, but excessively fruit-driven
Ian - 08/04/2020
Quite pleasant everyday drop - good value
Helene - 06/04/2020
Pretty avarage
David - 23/01/2020
Very nice red and would purchase again.
Gordon - 28/12/2019
Not bad, but wouldn't buy again.
John - 21/12/2019
Was expecting more from this wine, after reading the reviews.
Nancy - 06/12/2019
Very drinkable.
John - 11/10/2019
Not bad
Roger - 05/10/2019
2nd lot doesn't seem as good as the first lot ordered before don't know if they are different vintages.
Kent - 08/09/2019
A smooth pleasant drop
Kevin - 06/09/2019
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