Family Reserve Pinot Noir 2021

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Family Reserve Pinot Noir 2021

What a challenging season! Heavy spring rain lead to poor pollination and a tiny crop. But the small bunches ripened beautifully and showed extraordinary concentration and intensity.

The careful vineyard management and hard work paid off and we were proud to receive a prestigious Gold medal from the New Zealand International Wine Show for this wine!

Look for our signature black Family Reserve label—an emblem of an exceptional vintage.


$45.00 NZD

Tasting Notes

Our Family Reserve Pinot Noir 2021 is beautifully intense with Black Doris plum, ripe cherries and a hint of wood-smoke elegantly framed by a perfect structure of peppery tannins.

In exceptional years we carefully select wines for our Family Reserve label. We feel they just have that extra dimension and deserve a black label.

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Reviews

Gold Medal New Zealand International Wine Show

Auckland, October 2024


5 Stars Michael Cooper

The impressive 2021 vintage was estate-grown, hand-harvested from 20 year-old vines and matured for a year in French oak barriques.

Deep, bright ruby, it is fragrant and mouthfilling, with concentrated, ripe cherry, plum and spice flavours, vibrant, savoury, complex and lingering. A finely structured, multi-layered red with obvious aging potential, it should be at its best 2027+.

The season

Mother Nature threw some hefty challenges at us with unsettled weather and gale-force wind in spring followed by a hail storm on
Boxing Day.  

The humid and cold conditions in December made pollination difficult, resulting in small bunches with far less berries than usual.

Luckily we dodged the worst of the hail storm in December and only the Pinot Noir suffered damage. 

In January the weather finally turned and the sun kept smiling down on us right into harvest. On 15 March we started picking beautifully healthy grapes of outstanding fruit concentration. Just smaller than wished for volumes…