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Anthem Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023 750ml

New Release

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Fruit is from Anthem vineyard in Gibbston Valley, a steep gorge along Central Otago’s Kawarau River. Vine age dates back to 2001. 60% whole bunches pressed to French oak barrels (35% new). Fruit from Gibbston has the ability to suck up new oak like a sponge, evident here in the intensity of pomegranate, fig and blood plum. Tannins are assertive, lifting and carrying the fine acidity and drawing the wine into linear lines. This will have you making a smacking sound with your lips, such is the grip and succulence. Nutmeg and cinnamon just round out the final notes. Nothing but class. 

95 Points | Shanteh Wale - Halliday Wine Companion

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'Enticingly perfumed, the 2023 vintage (*****) is a single-vineyard red, hand-picked at Gibbston from 23-year-old vines, barrel-aged, and bottled unfined and unfiltered.  Full, bright ruby, it is intensely varietal, with a lovely array of cherry, spice, herb and nut flavours, woven with fresh acidity, supple tannins and a savoury, complex, lingering finish.  A delicious, very harmonious and silky-textured wine, it's already drinking well, but ageworthy too.'  

5 STARS | MICHAEL COOPER | AUGUST 2025

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‘Mellow, complex pinot noir with layers of floral/violet, dried herb and savoury flavours that linger long after the wine has been swallowed. Delicious wine that achieves a perfect balance of subtle sweetness and mellow tannins.’

95 POINTS | BOB CAMPBELL MW | JULY 2025

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"The voice of fresh raspberry and tart cherries then red apple then soils, of silty loams and stone. Dry, taut and salivating. Quite fleshy and new, WB is again noted, but could go higher based on the fruity concentration. A lovely wine with power and length."

95 POINTS | CAMERON DOUGLAS MS 

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‘The 2023 Anthem Pinot Noir is supple and lacy, detailed and fine. There are notes of cherry, strawberry, star anise, pink peppercorn and a hint of tapenade to close. This is a lighter-framed, very pretty wine, with good length through the finish. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.’

93 POINTS | ERIN LARKIN | WINE ADVOCATE | JANUARY 2026

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‘Bright ruby. Open knit and expressive flavours of boysenberry ice-cream with the generously ripe coulis of fruit wrapped in fragrant wild thyme, spicy clove and sweet cinnamon oak. The mid-weight flavours have a beguiling creamy sweetness which gives way to chewy, fine-grained tannins and long, tangy acidity. A very accessible and crowd-pleasing style which is hard to resist right now but which will move past its flamboyant stage with time in bottle, allowing more savoury and spicy complexity to emerge.’

93 POINTS | STEPHEN WONG MW | THE REAL REVIEW | AUGUST 2025

This traditionally cooler subregion delivers a Pinot of luminous clarity: bright morello cherry and wild strawberry sit at the core, lifted by violet perfume and a thread of spicy red berry; beneath this sits a sappy, umami savouriness that adds drive and complexity. Wild fermentation, whole-cluster inclusion and a low-toast oak regime gives elegance, complexity and structure to the wine. It’s everything we adore about Pinot Noir - perfume, savoury complexity and boundless energy and freshness.