2020 Cloudy Bay Pinot Noir 750ml

The 2020 Pinot Noir is fragrant, appealing and aromatic. Rose petals, dark cherries and blackberries fill the nose. On the palate, a core of rounded bramble fruit, ripe boysenberry and wild strawberry is unpinned by silky tannins and fine acidity. A concentrated yet elegant wine.

Versatility is our Pinot Noirs calling card. It matches with a wide variety of foods, including lighter game meats (duck, rabbit), lamb, roasted vegetables, berries, herbs and almost anything chargrilled.

The grapes are de-stemmed and put into open-top fermenters with wild yeast. Some whole bunches are included to build structure. Once the wine is pressed, its matured in French oak for 11 months. The final wine is an elegant, complex and fine-boned expression of Marlboroughs soils and Cloudy Bays vision.

Our Pinot Noir comes from the cool clay soils and rolling, north-facing slopes of Marlboroughs Southern Valleys region. The aged alluvial gravels and dense clay subsoils balance drainage and water availability to yield the region’s best Pinot Noir grapes. Key blocks include the Mustang, Delta and Barracks vineyards.