$24.00
$38.00
Handpicked fruit from low yielding vines has produced an elegant, deeply scented wine with sweet, ripe cherry and plum flavours with a round and well balanced finish, with savoury and roasted oak characters. Aged in French oak barriques, half new, this handcrafted single vineyard wine can be enjoyed now or cellared for up to seven years.
$32.00
$34.00
2009 Pinot Noir "Attractive wine with strong, bright plum and dark cherry flavours. Moderately concentrated sweet fruit with a lingering finish. An appealing wine with strong varietal definition." Bob Campbell - 4 Stars
2010 Pinot Noir "Attractive wine with fresh, bright red cherry and plum flavours. Concentrated sweet fruit with a lingering finish. An appealing wine with strong varietal definition." Bob Campbell - 4 Stars
$44.00
"Very similar to the regular label, with a little more fruit concentration and oak influence. Very focused wine with a linear and lingering finish ."- Bob Campbell - 4 Stars
$45.00
$42.00
VINTAGE 2015 - A great and largely typical season – a gentle spring, with a warm January and a welcome coolness at the back end through February and March. Some large winds in January put pressure on the canopies, the positive being that berry size was kept smaller, intensifying the fruit. Crimson is our selection of fruit from younger parcels of vines from our various vineyards on the Martinborough Terrace. Vine age ranges from 5-20 years. In their youth, vines tend to be more fruit expressive, gaining more complexity with age (as do we all!). The winemaking philosophy is the same as for our signature Pinot Noir; no enzymes or yeasts are added, providing a hands-off, traditional approach to expressing the site. What we find in the 2015 year is a length and drive that belies the age of the vines. More savoury in spectrum than previous vintages, the nose exudes spice, red licorice and a medley of bramble fruit. All carry through onto the palate, with the older vine portion providing real weight and a fine line and length
$45.00
Only the oldest and most revered parcels of fruit are used in this, our premium Pinot Noir. The fabled Abel clone, allegedly smuggled from Burgundy in the mid-70s, makes up 40% of the blend. The result is a very complex, structured wine, beautifully perfumed in the classic Ata Rangi style. Exotic spice, dark cherry and rose petal are offset by a more savoury array of aromas and flavours on the finish. This is a very complete and graceful wine; succulent and generous on the palate yet supple, sinewy, long and fine. Another excellent vintage to follow 2013, the season was characterised by an unusually warm, settled spring. This trend continued through flowering and on into January. February and March were thankfully cooler than usual, stretching out the season and preserving aromatics as the evenly-formed bunches steadily ripened. Interestingly, accumulated Growing Degree Days of 1170 (a measure of heat across the growing season) leading into this harvest were, in the end, almost identical to those for the fabled 2013.
$53.00
This 2013 'Provenance' Pinot Noir shows a wealth of brambly ripe dark cherry fruit characters, with a sappy cherry and plum stone finish supported by fine tannins.
Can be enjoyed now or cellared for up to 10 years
$39.00
$45.00
$66.00
Delicately perfumed, displaying floral, cherry and subtle savoury aromas. The palate is bright and juicy with lovely fruit intensity, backed by refreshing acidity and gently firm tannins.
$51.00
Attractive fragrances and floral aromas on the nose here. This has a leafy side too with violets, herbs and bracken, as well as purple cherries. The palate is supple and smooth, showing layered, ripe nutty tannins and boysenberries. Plenty of light, fleshy appeal.
$38.00
Animus was born of a desire to reflect their more masculine take on Pinot Noir and the character of the Martinborough Terrace. They work with organically grown fruit sourced from old vines that they personally tend. The wine is renowned for its dark spice and fruit plus a little sauvage meaty character to complex them both.
$69.00
$45.00
$87.00
$87.00
They are lucky to have a small parcel of old Syrah vines at Cambridge Road. The wines continue to astound with their varietal definition and delicious natural balance. This is their smallest production of wine yet arguably making the highest impact for them around the world.
$39.00
$31.00
$35.00
This is a full bodied Pinot Noir with savoury dark fruits, supple soft tannins and plush texture.
$45.00
VINTAGE 2014 - Visually the wine has good clarity with a rich deep hue. It has an unmistakable Martinborough Pinot Noir nose, with enticing powerful and intense dark fruit aromas. The mouthfeel is of a well balanced wine. Notable front palate fine silky tannins, mid palette weight and good acidity. The wine has rich dark fruit flavours, which ebb and flow within its savoury and masculine structure. The overall style is one of low intervention, a pure expression of the vintage, of the region and particularly of the vineyard.
$73.00
$104.00
Clones 5, 10/5 and some Dijon clones from the ‘Dry River Estate', ‘Craighall' and ‘Lovat' sites, with whole bunch inclusion from 0-40%, averaging 20% fermented to 13.1% alc., the wine aged 12 months in 20% new oak, of which 75% was in 300 L and 350 L hogsheads. Dark, deep, purple-hued ruby-red colour. The nose is tight and firmly concentrated with a complex melange of black berry and cherry fruits, dark raspberries with lifted violet perfumes and nuances of dark herbs and earthy elements. Medium-full bodied, full, rounded and softly succulent flavours of black cherries and raspberries are interwoven with oak spices, herbs and minerals. The acidity is soft and adds poise and background freshness, and the tannins silky in texture. The palate flows very smoothly, with the structure and extraction building on mid-palate, carrying the flavours to a very long, sustained, dry but floral nuanced finish. This is a dark berry fruited Pinot Noir with smooth and fine textures that build in substance. (Raymond Chan 2012)
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