Mahi
Twin Valleys Pinot Noir 2023 750ml

After working with the Twin Valleys fruit for 20 years, we have watched the Pinot Noir improve as the vines aged and we developed a better understanding of the fruit.

The vineyard is on the top terrace of the Wairau Valley, where the soils are complex, though free-draining, and the temperatures are cool, therefore suiting low cropped thin-skinned Pinot Noir.

Mainly clone 115 for mid-palate weight, then 114 for floral nose and delicacy, and a small amount of the beefy clone 777.  The fruit ripened very evenly, especially with the wings removed, and the small-berried bunches were hand-harvested before being cooled overnight. After sorting, 30% of the bunches were retained as whole bunches through the native ferment and the wine left on skins for just over three weeks, before being run to French barriques.

After maturing for 16 months the wine was bottled unfined and unfiltered.