Jules Taylor OTQ Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019 $43 From Jules Taylor’s Wrekin Vineyard located in Marlborough’s southern valley’s comes this new vintage of her On The Quiet Pinot Noir and it’s quite possibly the tastiest thing you can spend $43 on right now. Inky-dark and intensely perfumed with wild cherries, ripe rhubarb and cranberry complexity, … Read More
Pinot Noir
Rock Ferry Trig Hill Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2016
Rock Ferry Trig Hill Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2016 $55 Organic wine wonder-couple Tom Hutchison and Fiona Harvey, have crafted this intensely-flavoured, unfiltered example from a tiny site in the desert-scape of Bendigo. Crammed with dark cherry, rosehip and black tea characters, the Trig Hill is incredibly fresh and frisky, yet maintains a delicious … Read More
Riverby Estate Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019
Riverby Estate Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019 $30 This pinot might be a new release, but it tastes like it’s had a lovely, long, sleepy, snoozy time in the bottle. Classic cherry and cranberry characters leap out of the glass and wash across the palate in a ripe, plummy, berry-infused wave of flavour. It’s easy, smooth, … Read More
Colere Moutere Valley Nelson Pinot Noir 2015
Colere Moutere Valley Nelson Pinot Noir 2015 $37 Grown in the rich, Moutere clays, this pinot noir was made by Michael Glover, a winemaker completely devoted to extracting everything good from those special sites in the Nelson region that rock for pinot noir. Organically grown and shepherded into the glass, this wine has a dried … Read More
Blackenbrook Nelson Pinot Rosé 2020
Blackenbrook Nelson Pinot Rosé 2020 $23 Bright and bursting with banging cherry, raspberry and cranberry characters, this rosé from the sunshine capital of the country is all kinds of ripe and rumpty. Bold, bouncy and super-fresh, it’s got that pinot noir tension, but also a vibrant, fruit-centric and fun thing to sip. http://www.blackenbrook.co.nz
Bald Hills 3 Acres Bannockburn Central Otago Pinot Noir 2018
Bald Hills 3 Acres Bannockburn Central Otago Pinot Noir 2018 $32 Well if this isn’t just the prettiest, ruby-hued thing to sip! Bannockburn is basically a desert, a dry, beautifully alien, rocky moonscape of a place, so if you’ve ever been there, you’ll completely understand why this vineyard is named Bald Hills. With a nose … Read More
Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir Rosé 2020
Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir Rosé 2020 $21 Not only is this rosé super-pretty in the glass, think Jazz apple aromatics, but cherry and redcurrant characters also burst forth as well. Crisp, crunchy-fresh and chilled-down its got summer afternoon written all over it. http://www.whitehaven.co.nz
Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir 2018
Whitehaven Marlborough Pinot Noir 2018 $35 Whenever the folk at Whitehaven release a new vintage pinot noir I’m all over it like an Augustine kimono. Handpicked fruit from a blend of Southern Valley’s and Awatere Valley vineyards has been put to excellent use in a pinot noir oozing cherry and raspberry and lithe, leather-licked layers … Read More
Flaxmore Nelson Pinot Noir 2018
Flaxmore Nelson Pinot Noir 2018 $27 Lightly coloured but bright and showing slighty dusty, dried herb notes on the nose which merge with cola and black tea as they lean into the palate. The acidity is upfront and fresh yet the finish has a meaty, savoury character to it. Lightly styled and suited to short … Read More
Rockburn Eight Barrels Gibbston Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2019
Rockburn Eight Barrels Gibbston Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2019 $96 Grown in soils known as ‘Pigburn shallow fine sandy loam’, the best eight barrels of pinot noir harvested from Rockburn’s Gibbston vineyard, were set aside, to live their best life, to be the best they could be, to live their own truth and to … Read More