Millton Clos de Ste. Anne Naboth's Vineyard Pinot Noir

Subtle × Umami× Forest Floor
97/100 Cameron Douglas M
 
🌿Sustainable Wine🌿
🐞Organic Wine🐞
🌒Byodynamic Wine🌒
 
Notes from the Winemaker:
We look to the old world for inspiration with Pinot Noir. Not wanting a big fruit bomb nor a dark wine with blocky oak tannin but delicacy and a subtle personality that is in balance. Brilliantly gleaming and darkened edges while subtle elegance reigns. Hand-harvested and sorted fruit was chilled, de-stemmed and fermented in small wooden cuves made of French Oak. The young wine sat on skins for one lunar cycle (28 days) before being pressed and put into special barriques sourced from selected French cooperages. There is a lifted ethereal perfume of currants, forest floor and thorny rosehips, interwoven with the dried stems of fescue, fennel and wildflowers, the richness of ripe black doris plum and dark fruits enhancing the higher notes. Midway through the taste there is a sweet but gripping tannin grain which will allow this wine to age for time to come. A sense of a limestone minerality lifts the wonder. Bottled on the property, using the finest natural cork. This wine enjoys time to rest in a decanter before serving. Unfined. Contains no animal products.
 
Pinot Noir from Gisborne
Vintage: 2020
Volume:750ml