Mahi Marlborough Pinot Noir 2021

Reviews

Bob Campbell, MW (The Real Review): 90/100. Fresh, aromatic pinot noir with dark cherry, rhubarb, plum, dark chocolate and spicy oak flavours. A wide range of ripeness levels is evident. A pleasing texture with a core of sweetness promotes accessibility.

Tasting Note

A full and rich bouquet, this wine is mouth filling, ripe and supple with good complexity. Dark cherries, plums, dark chocolate and spices combine with soft tannins to give a well-rounded finish.

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Additional information

Type: Red wine

Grape varial: Pinot Noir

Alcohol: 14% vol

Food match: rich game meat dishes like a venison and juniper stew.

Vineyards: Two different vineyards in Marlborough, New Zealand. This wine comes from two vineyards throughout Marlborough, both lending different characters to the wine. The Twin Valleys portion from the cooler Fareham Road area gives us the palate structure that Mahi require, offering finesse to the back-palate. The portion from Ward, approximately 45 kilometres south of Blenheim, providing great depth to the palate, with rich black fruit characters.

Winemaking: In the winery the grapes were predominantly destemmed before going to small vats for cold soaking prior to fermentation, allowing the extraction of soft tannins and colour at the juice stage rather than in the harsher alcoholic stage during and after fermentation. About 20% were fermented with stems or whole-bunch solely with indigenous yeasts offering a wide variety of flavours and helping us to attain better texture. During fermentation the skins and juice were hand-plunged on average two times per day. When finished the wine was taken straight to French barriques where it sat for 15 months. The wine was then gently racked, blended, and bottled unfiltered and unfined.

Residual sugar: <1 g/l

Bottle size: 0.75l

Notice: contains sulphites

Cellaring potential: until 2028+

Closure: Screwcap

Produced and bottled by: Mahi Wines Ltd., 9 Terrace Rd, PO Box 33, Renwick, Marlborough, New Zealand