Cloudy Bay Pinot Noir
The Pinor Noir 2022 is incredibly pretty and enticing on the nose, with notes of boysenberry, cherry and fragrant, dusky florals. On the palate, crunchy dark cherry, cranberry and hedgerow fruit notes burst in the mouth and bring an immediate sense of freshness. The tannins are super-fine, effortlessly underpinning the intense and succulent fruit character.
A full-bodied red wine with fine tannins; fragrant, earthy and aromatic. This is an appealing all-rounder with rich, fruity flourishes.
Our Pinot Noir comes from the cool clay soils and rolling, northfacing slopes of Marlborough’s Southern Valleys region. The aged alluvial gravels and dense clay subsoils balance drainage and water availability to yield the region’s best Pinot Noir grapes.
With over 30 years of experience with the variety in this region, our sites are selected carefully and each vineyard tended with care. The vines are trained with vertical shoot positioning to make the most of the sunlight. The key vineyards for this variety are Mustang, Delta, and Barracks.
Grown on the cool clay soils and rolling slopes of Marlborough’s Southern Valleys region, the pinot noir harvest came at the optimum time after near-perfect conditions in the vineyards. The full-flavoured, concentrated and complex fruit was gravity-fed into open-top fermentation tanks, with 7% whole-bunch inclusion. After 100% malolactic fermentation, the wine was matured in French oak for 11 months.
