Blackenbrook Vineyard
Blackenbrook
Reserve
St Jacques
Blackenbrook Reserve Pinot Noir 2009
After ageing for twelve months in French oak barriques, this is a powerful, fine-textured Pinot Noir with charming scents of wild black cherries and a silky-soft finish that won't quit.
The wine is built for ageing and we recommend to enjoy it between now and 2013.
· Single Vineyard: Home block
· Moutere clay soil with a layer of sandy loam
· Focus on healthy soil and sustainability
· Close planting: 3780 vines/ha
· All vines grafted on site
· 9 Clones: UCD 5, UCD 6, 10/5, 22, 114, 115, 667, 777, Abel
· After a good Nelson summer with plenty of sunshine, we headed into a wet February. Fortunately the good weather returned and we enjoyed a picture-book harvest with warm days and cool nights – excellent conditions for flavour development.
· Hand-picked and hand-sorted on 4 April with 25 Brix
· 4 weeks cold maceration at 2 degrees C
· hand plunged, gentle press cycle
· Gravity-fed from press area to main winery
· aged for 12 months in new and two-year old French oak barriques
· Minimal pumping
· Gentle filtration in a single pass from cloudy to sterile
· Bottled on 1 August 2010 under screw capsules
· 14.5% Alcohol
What they say...
Michael Cooper - Wine Buyer's GuideFull-coloured, it is very ripely scented, fleshy vibrant and youthful with strong cherry, plum and spice flavours, gentle tannins and good savoury complexity.
It’s a muscular wine, yet already highly approachable.
[94/100] Sam Kim - Wine OrbitWell known for their gorgeous aromatic wines, Daniel and Ursula Schwarzenbach have fashioned this impressive Pinot Noir from their home vineyard in Moutere.
It's youthful yet immensely appealing, displaying red/black cherry, spice, game and cedary oak characters on the nose. The palate is concentrated and dense with silky texture and plenty of fine, polished tannins.
The wine is engaging and complex with potential to develop greater richness. At its best: now to 2016.
Raymond Chan - www.raymondchanwinereviews.co.nzDark, deep, ruby-red colour with light, youthful, purple hues on edge. This has a full, firm and concentrated bouquet of black berry and plum fruits, a hint of liquorice and spicy oak backing.Neil Hodgson - The Nelson Mail
A full-bodied and powerfully concentrated wine, this shows densely packed black fruits with plums and violets along with liquorice elements on the palate. Oak is well-matched to the depth of fruit, and the elevated acidity provides noticeable liveliness and tension. Good tannin extraction underlines the palate and provides length.
This is a youthful wine of potential that will develop and come together with real interest over the next 5-7 years, no doubt then meriting a higher rating. Serve with rich and spicy poultry and red meat dishes. Jun 2011
Another five-star wine from a five-star producer. This is still a very young wine with appealing concentrated spiced red/black cherry flavours, a touch of gaminess and silky tannins. Another beauty from the talented Daniel Schwarzenbach.
