Astrolabe2020 Province Pinot Noir, Astrolabe
Marlborough, New ZealandVintage: 2020
This is a gorgeous Pinot Noir made from grapes grown across the Marlborough province: in the lower Waihopai and Wairau Valleys, the upper Brancott Valley and the Kekerengu Coast.
In the glass, it displays ripe dark and red cherry fruits, spice and leather with a hint of smoky oak. On the palate, it is full-bodied with round, mouth-filling flavours of plum, brambly fruit, dark cherry and savoury herbs. The oak integrates nicely with the fruit and silky tannins. Drink now to 2029. This wine is great with venison, duck, roasted beetroot, rare lamb and wild mushrooms.
Notable Awards
90 POINTS “OUTSTANDING”. “A savoury and elegant Pinot Noir that fills the mouth with cool, elegant fruit. Hailing predominantly from the richer soils of the region’s Southern Valleys, this midweight example has some additional substance, and the tannins envelop the mouth with a fine-grained texture. The finish bursts with freshness and is redolent of damson, raspberries, woodsmoke and spice. Drinking window 2021 – 2024.” MAR 21. Rebecca Gibb, Master of Wine, Vinous.com
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100% Pinot Noir
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Description
Astrolabe Wines is a small, family-owned New Zealand winery, established in 1996 by Simon and Jane Waghorn. Winemaker Simon Waghorn is fascinated by the distinctive qualities of the Marlborough sub-regions, and his wines have a wonderful purity and intensity of fruit drawn exclusively from Marlborough sites, which are chosen to add complexity and completeness in the wines.
Simon and Jane have developed a range of distinctive wines that express the purity and intensity of fruit flavours naturally afforded by the climate and soils of the Marlborough wine region. Astrolabe owns 10 hectares and work with a number of growers scattered all over Marlborough, from Awatere Valley to the Kekerengu Coast and the Wairau Valley. Each site is chosen for the distinctive flavour it produces and the growers who work with Simon and Jane understand the rhythms of the land and know-how to grow grapes that express the terroir.
The estate is named after a ship that in 1827 charted and explored the Marlborough Coast, back in 1827.
Hand-picked fruit was de-stemmed, crushed and cold-soaked for five days then fermented at warm temperature with wild yeast in small open-top vats. Traditional submerging of the ‘cap’ by hand-plunging was followed by a light pressing. The pinot noir was then aged in French oak barriques for 10 months. Bottled 7th March, 2018.
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