Riverby Estate Pinot Noir 2007

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Winery:

Riverby Estate

Varietal:

Pinot Noir

Region:

New Zealand > Marlborough

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What to Expect

Pinot Noir: Responsible for some of the greatest wines on earth - the exhausted red wines of France's Burgundy region. Pinot Noir is a notoriously fickle grape that expresses its origins like no other. It's a vine that needs to struggle to produce great wines but when it does the depth of flavors that range from cherry to cola can be explosive and the wines' bright acidity and gentle tannins make them approachable and widely appealing,

Winemakers Notes

The fruit for this pinot noir was all hand-picked from our estate vineyard with a yield of just 2.5 tonnes per acre. It is a blend of several clones, predominantly 115, 667 and 777, the oldest of which were planted some 15 years ago. The fruit was destemmed, cold soaked and then lightly pressed before spending just over 11 months in French oak, 40% new, and was bottled on 5 March 2008.

This pinot has a lovely rich velvety ruby colour with beautiful floral aromas. Roses and violets, cherries and plums, bacon and mushrooms, all abound on the delightfully perfumed nose. On the palate it is a very read more...clean elegant wine, beautifully textured with sweet berry fruit and lovely savoury characters. It has delightful balance and acidity with fine grained tannins and a lingering herbal finish. It promises to develop considerable complexity and charm given further bottle age    (hide)

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