Technical Analysis
The Noir label brings together over 3 decades of winemaking experience in New Zealand, creating a soft, bright, fruit-forward wine.
Tasting note
Bright ruby red in colour, the wine opens with lifted perfume and fresh summer berries. An elegant vintage has created softness and focus. Fragrant and attractive with fresh red berries, underpinned with turned earth, subtle spice and savoury notes, adding to complexity. Fresh berries continue on the palate with ripe cranberry, fresh cherry and strawberry, creating a bright vibrancy and crunchie freshness. Soft, fine-grained tannin also intertwine on the palate, creating texture and poise.
Vinification details
Made using traditional techniques from fruit grown on the Martinborough terrace. The fruit was destemmed into open top vessels and fermented using indigenous yeast. After an average vat time of 23 days the wine was pressed off and aged in predominately older French barriques for 10 months, with 16% new French oak. Bottled without fining, the resulting wine is a blend of 36 individual parcels.
Tasting video
With winemaker Tim Bourne.
Technical Analysis
The Noir label brings together over 3 decades of winemaking experience in New Zealand, creating a soft, bright, fruit-forward wine.
Tasting note
A soft, bright, fruit forward wine which can be enjoyed immediately or will cellar successfully for a number of years.
Vintage Conditions
While it will be forever remembered as the Covid harvest, an excellent summer throughout most of the country has contributed to an outstanding vintage for New Zealand’s wine regions.
Vinification details
100% Martinborough hand harvested fruit has been open top fermented. After a total vat time of 16 days the wine was pressed off and barrel aged for 11 months. Bottled without filtration, structure and texture sit perfectly with ripe fruit flavours and gentle tannins.
AWARDS
Bob Campbell MW: 93 pts
Raymond Chan: 93 pts
Wine Orbit (Sam Kim): 93 pts
Technical Analysis
The Noir label brings together over 3 decades of winemaking experience in New Zealand, creating a soft, bright, fruit-forward wine.
Tasting note
Structure and texture sit perfectly with ripe fruit flavours and combine with intriguing complexity.
Vinification details
100% Martinborough hand-harvested fruit has been open top fermented. After a total vat time of 21 days the wine was pressed off and barrel aged for 11 months. Bottled without filtration.
