"Harmonious, complex & delightfully elegant" Wine Orbit
"Succulent & fleshy, delivering gorgeous fruit intensity" Wine Orbit
Enjoy with a charcuterie board with plenty of blue cheese!
Mystery Wairarapa Pinot Noir 2018 (03)
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 (03)
Accolades
Awarded 94/100 Points
New Zealand Wine Magazine 2020
Awarded 93/100 Points & 5 Stars
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit Jul 2019
Awarded 93/100 Points & 4.5 Stars
Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review, Oct 2019
Awarded 93/100 Points
Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier
Awarded Silver Medal & 91 Points
International Wine Challenge
Description
- Oaked
- Wild flower
- Dark plum & cherry
- Spicy oak
"It is splendidly fruited and beautifully fragrant on the nose showing dark plum, sweet strawberry, thyme, almond and dark mushroom characters. The palate is succulent and fleshy, delivering gorgeous fruit intensity together with spicy/savoury nuances backed by fine-grained tannins, finishing long and silky. Harmonious, complex and delightfully elegant. At its best: now to 2023" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit Jul 2019
"Delicate, floral pinot noir with cherry, berry and spicy oak flavours. Mellow, smooth-textured wine that delivers power with subtlety. An appealing wine with purity" Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review, Oct 2019
This Mystery Pinot Noir ripples with elegance and finesse reflecting the warm growing season experienced throughout the Wairarapa region. Bold aromatic expressions of wild flower, red berries, spice and herb give way to a fresh palate with generous length and graceful oak.
The vineyard blocks selected for this Mystery Pinot Noir receive additional attention during the growing season with a lot of leaf plucking and shoot positioning done by hand to expose the fruit and ensure optimum ripeness. The vineyard is planted in several combinations of rootstock and Pinot Noir clones. This wine was made from clones 667, 5, 777, each of which adds their own character and complexity to the final blend.
In the winery, the different batches of fruit were processed separately so that the individual characters could be retained. Further complexity was added by incorporating techniques such as plunging and pumping over to ensure optimum flavour extraction from the skins. Prior to fermentation the grapes were left to cold soak for 3 days. Different yeast combinations were used, along with wild yeasts, to add even more depth of flavour. The different batches were then left on skins for 21 days before being pressed off into barrel. This wine also incorporated some whole cluster fermentation, which has lifted the aromatic profile with floral and spice notes. Once in barrel, the wine was aged for 12 months in oak (23% new) before the final blend was put together.
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Subtle wine from a family size vineyard. A must try.
Julien - 31/05/2020
This is one of my favourite red wines, and is a steal at this price! It’s smooth, well-rounded, sophisticated and yet beautifully playful. It’s heavy enough to enjoy by the fire on a cold winter’s night, and light enough to remind you of the warmth of the summer sun. It’s colourful deciduous trees in autumn, and the first spring flowers cheekily showing their colours. It’s an allrounder, a versatile number, the little black dress of red wines.
Cordula - 08/05/2020
enjoyed this as well - 4 stars
Gail - 07/10/2020
Second time ordered, well worth the price.
John - 22/06/2020
Very smoorh
Albert - 21/06/2020
This is an elegant and excellent wine - the reviews above do not oversell it. It's not a big, muscular, dark pinot but a berryish one with subtle oak and a smooth finish. Very drinkable and a good bargain.
Andrew - 09/05/2020
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