"A well-choreographed palate delivers style & plenty of plush fruit" Cuisine Magazine
Showcasing an intense bouquet of brooding dark cherry & violets meddling with subtle fresh herb notes
Delicious with juicy beef steak, seared venison or baked salmon
Villa Maria Single Vineyard Taylors Pass Marlborough Pinot Noir 2015
Villa Maria Single Vineyard Taylors Pass Marlborough Pinot Noir 2015
Accolades
Awarded Gold Medal
New Zealand International Wine Show 2019
Awarded Gold Medal
New Zealand Wine of the Year Awards 2019
Awarded Gold Medal
Royal Easter Show Wine Awards 2019
Awarded 5 Stars & Top 10: Pinot Noir
Cuisine Magazine 2020
Description
- French oak
- Dark cherry
- Dark chocolate
- Gentle tannins
"A lovely example of lively, succulent fruit with some bottle development delivering dense, berry-fruit notes. A well-choreographed palate delivers style and plenty of plush fruit with nicely integrated and balanced spicy oak and gentle relaxed tannins" Cuisine Magazine 2020
The Taylors Pass vineyard is warm and sheltered producing an intensely ripe style Pinot Noir that is not typical of the Marlborough region. This wine is a single vineyard expression of the Taylors Pass site, showcasing an intense bouquet of brooding dark cherry and violets meddling with subtle fresh herb notes. A harmony of tannins, with a soft acidity and graphite minerality provide great focus, tension and length to the palate. On the finish there are layers of dark chocolate, dried herbs and spicy oak.
Taylors Pass vineyard sits on the northern bank of the Awatere River, running west to east through the Awatere Valley and out to Clifford Bay in Marlborough. The vineyard is warm, sheltered and protected from the cool southerly breezes that flow down through the valley from the mountains.
The vineyard is planted on a mixture of soil types. Stony soils contribute fresh floral and red fruit notes, whereas the silt loam soils provide earthy dense tannins, dark berry notes and a soft graphite minerality to the palate. The 2015 growing season will be remembered as one of the stronger years due to a long warm Summer and modest crop levels. With very low rainfall at the beginning of harvest giving the vines the lift they needed to push fruit through to perfect ripeness of flavours and tannins.
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