The fruit for this wine was sourced from a single vineyard on the Omihi hills over-looking the Waipara valley. This vineyard is densely planted (6500 plants per hectare) and cropped at less than 1 Kg per vine. This site has dense clay over limestone providing us with intensely concentrated fruit with dark berry and savoury characters. The Omihi Rise vineyard is located just a few 100 metres from our LOT SEVEN vineyard yet both wines have their own distinctive character.
In the winery the fruit was immediately de-stemmed with 15% of whole bunches retained. The wine was naturally fermented by wild yeast in wooden, open-top fermenters. After fermentation the wine is macerated on skins until we thought the balance between tannin and flavours was perfect. The wine is transferred into a mix of new, 1, 2 and 3 year old French oak barrels where it matured on fermentation lees for 18 months. The wine underwent natural spontaneous malo-lactic fermentation the following spring before being racked into tank for blending and equalizing. This wine was not fined or filtered before being bottled on 20th February 2011.
Aromas of red fruits, spice and sweet leather. The palate is taut, firm and complex. A complex fruit core is girdled by dense age-worthy tannins, with a fine mineral note on the finishDeep, vibrant wine with concentrated plum, cherry and spice flavours together with a suggestion of floral/violets. Rich, ripe and yet full of energy and with obvious cellaring potential. A class act 06 AUG 2012.
95 points Bob Campbell MW The Real Review
Product/Service Sold Out | Yes |
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En Primeur | No |
New Arrivals | No |
Wine Type | Red Wine |
Wine Style | Certified Organic |
Country | New Zealand |
Region | Nelson |
Varietals | Pinot Noir |
Vintage | 2009 |
Bottle Size | 750ml |
Wine Points | 95 |