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Region: Brancott, Marlborough
Accolades:
Cellaring:
This wine will reward careful cellaring for 2 - 3 years
Wine Style:
An intriguing wine which captures the elegance and finesse of Pinot Noir. The wine evolves in the glass, revealing a harmony of fruit purity and savoury complexity - rich plum and cherry characters with hints of wild thyme and mushrooms. The generous flavours are supported by soft, silky tannins.
Vineyard:
A selection of Pinot Noir clones are grown on our hillside vineyard in Marlborough’s Brancott Valley. Yield is managed to a maximum of 2 tonne/acre (32 hl/hectare) to provide ripe, concentrated grapes. Each clone contributes a unique personality to the final blend whether it be fragrance, depth or structure.
Winemaking:
The grapes were hand harvested and gently crushed into open-top fermenters. Before fermentation, the crushed grapes are cold soaked for several days to gently extract colour and tannin. Regular hand-plunging was used during fermentation to avoid extracting aggressive phenolics which would detract from the elegance of the finished wine. The free run wine only is then run off to French oak barrels for maturation. The final blend is bottled without fining and only minimal filtration. | 
