Villa Maria

Reserve Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir
Villa Maria Reserve Pinot Noir
Villa Maria Reserve Pinot Noir

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Villa Maria

Reserve Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir
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Wine Production

Part of the Pinot Noir fruit for this Reserve Pinot Noir comes from two vineyards with deep clay-based soils in the Wairau Valley. Rutherford and Cowley are in the sheltered north-facing Ben Morven Valley. The remaining Pinot Noir comes from the cooler Awatere Valley, both with freedraining windblown silt loess soils adjacent to the Awatere River.

Tasting Notes

Our Marlborough Reserve Pinot Noir showcases bright floral aromas as well as fresh cherries. On the palate is an inviting mixture of dark chocolate and juicy summer berries with hints of fresh portabello mushrooms. This complex wine shows both purity and richness with soft velvety tannins and toasty oak influence which completes the wine.

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Wine Production

Part of the Pinot Noir fruit for this Reserve Pinot Noir comes from two vineyards with deep clay-based soils in the Wairau Valley. Rutherford and Cowley are in the sheltered north-facing Ben Morven Valley. The remaining Pinot Noir comes from the cooler Awatere Valley, both with freedraining windblown silt loess soils adjacent to the Awatere River.

Tasting Notes

Our Marlborough Reserve Pinot Noir showcases bright floral aromas as well as fresh cherries. On the palate is an inviting mixture of dark chocolate and juicy summer berries with hints of fresh portabello mushrooms. This complex wine shows both purity and richness with soft velvety tannins and toasty oak influence which completes the wine.

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“This is gorgeously ripe and impressively complex on the nose showing ripe cherry, warm mushroom, toasted spice, hazelnut and game nuances, leading to a silky-smooth palate that's succulent and wonderfully flavoursome. It's plush and velvety with layers of delicious flavours.”
Sam Kim
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“A good example of Marlborough pinot noir, with appealing fruit sweetness and a silken texture. A supple wine with bright cherry, berry, plum, coffee, red rose and spicy oak flavours. Accessible now but no rush.”
Bob Campbell
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“Complex and detailed bouquet with scents of ripe red berry fruit and kitchen cupboard spices, sweet toasty French oak and suggestions of dark plum and black currant. Youthful, complex and enticing. On the palate - a core of red berry fruit flavours fill the palate first contrasted by acidity and an abundance of tannins. A chalky texture and salivating mouthfeel contrast flavours of berries and plum, clove and vanilla, some wood smoke and stony earth qualities. An excellent example, balanced and well made.”
Cam Douglas
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“This has aromas of bark, bramble, ripe cherries, cloves, thyme and ash. Medium-bodied, with fine tannins and bright acidity. Excellent precision with some toasty spice complexity to the berry fruit. Sustainable.”
James Suckling

Winemaking & Aging

Varietal composition:
100% Pinot Noir
Fermentation container:
35% new French barriques and 65% seasoned barriques
Length of alcoholic fermentation:
14 months in French barriques followed by 4 months settling in tank days

Analytical Data

pH level:
3.68
Acidity:
5.4 g/L
Alcohol:
14 %
Residual sugar:
0.2 g/L
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