Description
Appearance
Clear ruby red.
Bouquet
Complex smoky, cedar wood, ripe plum and dried herbs.
Palate
Raspberry and black currant flavours with savoury and earthy tones. This wine has a solid mid-palate and lingering chocolate finish. An elegant wine, well balanced with fine tannins and good acidity.
Technical Analysis
Location – 45 degrees South
Low cropping estate grown grapes for this wine were hand harvested in April 2014 from Aurum’s Te Wairere vineyard in the Lowburn area of Central Otago, New Zealand.
Climate
2014 was a long cool season with extended hang time for the fruit which reached optimum ripeness.
Soils
Wind-blown sands and silts.
Vine age
15 year old vines
Trellis Style
VSP (Vertical shoot positioning)
Winemaker’s Comments
Grapes for this Pinot Noir were selected by the winemakers and fermented in open top fermenters, hand plunged and with wild yeasts. The wine was matured for 12 months in French oak barrels with 20% new oak.
Will reward by cellaring 4-8 years.
Mathilde is the name of the first born daughter of our winemakers, Brook and Lucie Lawrence.
Bottled : June 2015
Alcohol : 13 %
Closure: Screwcap
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