With age comes character.

 Every sense is activated from the first pass, this wine is all about depth and complexity.

Spice, wild herbs and brooding plummy fruit emanate from the glass with an airy perfume.  Intriguing brown spice rack and graphite infuse with leafy sous bois aromatics. The nose is highly detailed - compact and focused - it should open impressively with time.

Very fine and silky entry, plenty of structure over a precise and linear framework. Delicate form with harmonic acidity driving line and length.  The balance between fruit, tannin and acid is special and suggests a fascinating voyage ahead.  Detail, perfumed aromatics, silk-like texture and subtle persistence define this year’s A1.

Compelling now but definitely one for the cellar, 5 to 7 years to the high plateau of evolution.

Food – Birds: big or small, wild or farmed, but duck with potatoes roasted in said bird’s fat would be perfect.  Salad, as usual, entirely optional.

Unquestionably fruit driven from the moment of opening – gorgeous, rich Central Otago sensations - a festoon of dark plum and rose petal florals fill the glass. 

There is depth and concentration of aroma with subtle graphite, Turkish delight and a slatey mineral lift. So ready on the nose, but foremost this wine is hospitably fruit driven.

Plush and pillowy entry with plenty of weight and texture to the dark fruit-focused core, plums and cherries galore. Very good power and intensity with generosity, cut through with fine acidity and layered tannin structure.

Plush and comforting but with poise – opera, not ballet.

Cellaring – now to 5 years

Food – Any Lamb from Yotam Ottolenghi, some middle eastern influence and a squeeze of lemon juice over the top to get your tastebuds really going.

Brassy, rose-gold with a faint green hue and a platinum fleck, mica-like shimmer catches the eye.

Lots happening on the nose: dusty river rock minerality, rose petals, Turkish delight, slight wild herbs, and a hint of sourdough mother but more brioche than that. There is a risqué bouquet of rouge compact and red-hot lipstick entwined with ripe golden queen peaches and musk sticks.  It’s evocative and multi-dimensional, so many layers evolving and changing as it readies itself in the glass.

The intensity on the palate impresses and it moves you in another direction: dry and savoury but full of textural depth. The interplay between acid and phenolics reminds you of that attribute in fine Nebbiolo, that leads to complex florals, particularly roses but some cherry blossom adding sedimentary depth. You cannot escape the musk, with a hint of cinnamon apricot kernel. The finish is long and dry with a distinctive crunch on the exit. It’s edgy yet resolved, exciting yet calm, almost like the grip of a sea anemone on your finger.

Food: It is simply delicious on its own. However, a winner when paired with a slab of Stewart Island Salmon, smoked on toast with a dab of caviar - perhaps kedgeree for the second course.

There’s an old red wine adage “The bigger the bottle the better it ages”.

We bottle a very small amount of Magnums every year. Perfect for special events, dinners
 and gifts.

There’s an old red wine adage “The bigger the bottle the better it ages”.

We bottle a very small amount of Magnums every year. Perfect for special events, dinners
 and gifts.

The jeroboam bottle is supplied in a wooden box.

Need a couple of Magnums (1.5-litre bottles) to pair with Christmas lunch? The Marvellous Magnums Duo is for you.

1x 2018 A2 Pinot Noir Magnum

1x 2021 Pinot Noir Blanc Magnum 

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Looking for a range of our wine trio? Grab the Mixed Six

2x 2018 A1 Pinot Noir

2x 2018 A2 Pinot Noir

2x 2021 Pinot Noir Blanc

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Off to the beach? Grab out 12 bottle Bach Pack:

2 x 2016 A1 Pinot Noir

6 x 2018 A2 Pinot Noir

4 x 2021 Pinot Noir Blanc 

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