Tasting note
Layers of softly silky, mineral-edged flavours of red fruits, plums, cherries are nuanced with spice and herbal notes. Medium-bodied, pure and detailed on the palate with fine-grained tannins that lead to the long, sustained finish.
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Reviews
Reviews for Rippon "Rippon" Mature Vine Pinot Noir 2021:
James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com
Lovely ripe berries and strawberries with some juicy fruit and forest flower aromas that follow through to a full body with layers of fruit and fine tannins that spread across the palate. Oyster shell and granite-like undertones. Warm fruit character yet cool in the mouth. .... Drink after 2025, but already beautiful.
Cameron Douglas MS
CamDouglasMS.com
Youthful and taut, an expression of site and soil, slightly darker fruited though a little more mystery and personality. Dry and firm with ripe tannins in abundance, plenty of acidity and mouthfeel, length and intrigue. Dried cherry and plums, some raspberry and fresh cherry fruit flavour suggestions, chalky textured tannins, lots of length and complexity. Best from 2028 through 2038.
Emma Jenkins MW
Decanter
Creamy blackberry, flashes of red berry fruit and baking spices, a touch of graphite and lavender. Quite a tight palate with underlying juicy fruit that slides between firm, fine-grained tannins. Very good build and energy with nice drive to a long finish. Really only just starting to come out of its shell, so there's no hurry here. Rippon describes this as 'the voice of the farm', as it is drawn from all the mature vines on the land, with an average age of 30 years. Drinking Window: 2025 - 2038
Additional information
Type: red wine
Varietal: 100% Pinot Noir
Food match: Match with lamb dishes and Mediterranean cuisine.
Vineyard site: Lake Wanaka, Central Otago, New
Zealand. Rippon, the west boad of Roy's Bay, Lake Wanaka. Rippon's north-facing escarpment forms
the meeting point of terminal moraines and coarse gravels; all based in schist. Rippon, a wine issued from
all of the fully developed Pinot Noir vines, is considered the farm voice of this distinct parcel of land.
Winemaking:
Picked by hand into small, 10kg cases allowing the fruit to arrive at
the winery's sorting table undamaged and intact.This wine represents many small parcels of different clones, vine ages and
micro-sites within a single Vineyard: Rippon. They were picked and fermented separately in 13, 2-tonne
stainless-steel fermenters.
Each parcel is fermented and matured apart before blending. The winery's resident yeast population (non-inoculated) completed cuvasion in 9-11 days. The ferments reached
maximum temperatures of 15-32°C Celsius.
Total time of skin contact: 14-28 days, depending on parcel.
12 months of new (21%) to 4 year old French oak barrels. The malolactic fermentation
went through unaided (non-inoculated) in springtime; it was then racked back into barrel and allowed a
second winter in barrel before being run directly into bottle without filtering or fining.
Total Time in Barrel: 16 months.
Decanting: Recommended
Cellaring potential: 2030+
Cases produced: 764
Alcohol: 13.5% vol
Residual sugar: <2 g/l
Bottle size: 0.75l
Notice: contains sulfite
Produced and bottled with loving care by: Rippon Vineyard and Winery Ltd., 246 Wanaka-Mount Aspiring Road, Wanaka 9381, New Zealand