Te Mata Estate
Alma Pinot Noir 2025 750ml

Alma ’25

Alma ’25 is closed with a Diam cork and will evolve in bottle for 10 years from harvest.

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

pH: 3.72

Total acidity as tartaric: 4.7gpl

Alcohol: 14.0%

Residual Sugar: Dry

VINEYARDS

Separate parcels of fully ripened pinot noir grapes were hand harvested from Te Mata Estate’s Woodthorpe vineyard between 25 and 26 February 2025.

WINEMAKING                                                                                                                       

The individual lots were each destemmed and given a traditional warm-plunged fermentation. The resulting wines underwent extended maceration on skins before pressing. The separate wines were all run to a mixture of new and seasoned French oak barriques for 10 months’ maturation, with 32% being new oak.

ORIGIN

Alma celebrates Dr James Thomson, a hero of the 1854 Battle of the Alma during the Crimean War and forefather to Te Mata Estate’s Buck family. Knowing the vanquished enemy soldiers had already contracted cholera, Dr Thomson volunteered to tend to their wounds, saving the lives of over four hundred, and sacrificing his own in the process. T he medal he was awarded for this selfless act of valour appears on the label of Alma Pinot Noir.