LV Pinot Noir 2019

Concentrated nose with cherry, plum, cranberry, cinnamon, allspice, leather and vanilla. The palate is silky and ethereal with layers of flavour, very fine tannins and impressive length.

Vineyard & Winemaking

Silts over gravel from the Waihopai Valley. 100% Pinot Noir. Clones 777, 115 and Clone 5.

This wine is blended from the Burgundy Clones 777 and 115, along with Clone 5. Fermented in small two-ton oak cuves partially cold-soaked for three to five days and only hand plunged. Subsequently left on skins for 15 days, pressed off and matured in a high proportion of new French puncheons and barriques for just under 2 years, with one rack and return before bottling. This wine is unfiltered and has one year's bottle age prior to release.

This collection of wines has been made in a stylistically bold manner. The focus is on purity, texture, concentration and longevity, with a hell of a lot of personality!