Stoneburn Marlborough Pinot Noir 2024

Description

Oak, Plum, Raspberry

This fragrant Pinot Noir exhibits a rich, open-knit bouquet of raspberry fruit aromas leading onto ripe plum characters. The wine shows a rich and smooth palate with soft silky tannins which lead to a fresh, balanced finish full of character.

At the start of the growing season conditions were dry with some isolated spring frost events. During flowering cooler temperature and changeable daytime weather led to a below-average set of berries. Warm days and settled weather followed, resulting in higher-than-average daily temperature. During vintage we had warm days, cool nights and minimal rain which allowed perfect conditions for the fruit to be picked at optimum ripeness. Although we had lower-than-average yield, the fruit was of excellent quality.

A portion of the fruit was hand-picked and was plunged in small open vats until completion of ferment. The remainder of the fruit was machine picked and fermented in stainless steel tanks. The ferment was pumped over once a day with temperatures of up to 32 degrees being reached to extract the colour and tannins for the backbone of the wine.

The wine was pressed off just before completion of fermentation and transferred into oak where it aged in one and two-year-old French oak barriques for eight months before being blended and bottled.