Allan Scott Black Label Marlborough Pinot Noir 2025

Description

Cherry, Chocolate, Oak

A classic Marlborough Pinot Noir, showing ripe red berry fruits, plum, chocolate and hints of nutmeg. The palate has a seamless combination of concentrated tannins and a rich supple texture. Delicious drinking now, this wine will soften and gain more complex truffle, smoke, and dried fruit notes with further bottle age.

Food Pairing: Delicious with Camembert and Brie cheeses, and a great companion to game meat, roast chicken and duck dishes, particularly on a cool winter’s night.

Four vineyard blocks spread across Central Rapaura and the Southern Valleys were picked separately. The mild and dry growing season gave naturally low yields with small berries. In combination with a perfect, dry ripening period, the Pinot noir from 2024 had intense colour and flavour, promising exceptional things for the resulting wine.

With a talented and enthusiastic team of international superstars in the winery, this harvest provided an opportunity to showcase the very best flavours of an exceptional vintage.

Picked in the cool of the morning, the ripe, concentrated grapes were fermented in small open top fermenters and plunged gently by hand. After pressing the wine rested in French oak barrels for 10 months. After selecting the best barrels the wine was blended and bottled just prior to the 2025 harvest.