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Martinborough Te Tera Pinot Noir 2011
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Sumptuous red fruit and spicy notes on the nose lead to silky smooth, rounded tannins with layers of fruit and complexity coming through on the palate.
Our Pinot Noir blocks are hand harvested from vines ageing up to 30years – some of New Zealand’s oldest Pinot Noir vines. A range of 10 clones including Abel, 10/5 and some of the newer Dijon clones are planted and give complexity to the final blend. The vineyards are situated on the Martinborough Terrace, which is famed for its deep, free draining, ancient river bed soils which are ideal for making ultra premium Pinot Noir wines. The region has a cool, maritime climate along with other beneficial climatic drivers including a rain shadow, one of the country’s largest diurnal temperature differentials, windy springs and a long warm period through autumn. All this results in a natural low-vigour site regulating crops and enabling high quality, consistent, ripe fruit.
All fruit is carefully sorted in the vineyard at harvest and again in the winery before being processed. All the fruit for Te Tera Pinot Noir is destemmed and carefully tipped into 5-6T open fermentors. The wine underwent a cool pre-ferment maceration for 5-8 days and spent an average time on skins of about 20 days before all being pressed to French oak barrels. The wine undergoes malolactic fermentation in barrel and remained on its lees for 10 months before racking, blending and bottling. Indigenous yeasts are used which add to the wine’s complexity in addition to traditional methods of punching down the ferments by hand.
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WBW Rating: 93/100
Closure: Stelvin
Region: Martinborough NZ |
Winemaker: Claire Mulholland
Drink now until: 2016
Alc/Vol: 13.5 %
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