Marble Point Vineyard, Winery, Waiau River, Hanmer Springs, New Zealand

2008 Marble Point Pinot Noir

WINE ANALYSIS

Harvest Date:  21st and 22nd April 2008
Brix:  23.9 -- 24.8 Bx
Fermentation:  Small open top fermenters
Oak: 100% French oak, 25% new
Alcohol: 13.3%
Titratible Acidity: 5.3g/l 
pH: 3.59
Residual Sugar:  0.75g/l

CELLAR NOTES

The fruit for this wine was picked in perfect condition. The fruit was brought in to the winery and put across a sorting table to remove any bad fruit or second set. The grapes where then destemmed in to small open top fermenters for fermentation. A cold soak was given to the grapes prior to then starting fermentation, which was undertaken by wild yeast and the grapes spent about 28 days on skins. After pressing the wine was put to barrel, 25% new, and matured for 16 months before blending and bottling. Traditionally fined with egg whites.

TASTING NOTES

Plump ripe red berry fruits leap from the glass with complex savoury notes lingering. This is a serious wine with great depth, flavour, concentration and structure. The vibrant palate is packed with ripe flavours of black boy peach, and Dorson cherries with complex earthy flavours making this a wine with character. This wine will reward with cellaring.  

RATINGS AND AWARDS
Michael Cooper's; Buyer's Guide to New Zealand Wines 2011
3.5 stars
Sue Courtney's Wine of the Week 25th April 2010
4.5 stars
 Sue writes, We tasted 5 wines, all made from grapes grown on site.--------- But it was the Marble Point Pinot Noir 2008 that really seduced me at the winery tasting----- dense and saturated in colour. The alluring earthy / savoury / fruity aromas distinctly pinpoint the variety, the texture  is velvety and seductive and the flavours are spicy and savoury with dense berry fruit sweetness and a long lingering full-bodied finish
 read full review at  www.wineoftheweek.com

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