Corofin Settlement Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023
$75.00 inc. GST
Accolades:
96/100 – James Suckling
95/100 – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front (2022 vintage)
95/100 – Jamie Goode, Wine Anorak (2022 vintage)
94/100 – Stephen Wong MW (2022 vintage)
“Complex and aromatic on the nose, this offers sour cherries, citrus peel and hints of lavender, rosemary and iron. Beautifully tense and focused on the palate, showing crunchy fruit yet with a firm and compact structure and bright minerality, finishing dusty and long. Already very attractive, but will age well. Drink or hold.” – James Suckling
Tasting Note: Red, earthy and warm. Wonderful purity but with savoury substance behind it, extending something ethereal as only Settlement does. Settlement Vineyard is planted on the slopes of the Omaka Valley in Marlborough. Owned by Dog Point and managed with immense intelligence and insight by viticulturist Nigel Sowman. The East Slope lies in a nor-nor-east orientation and is planted at a density of 4,000 vines per hectare on clay-rich soils.
Winemaking Notes: Hand-harvested 14th March 2023 into 1/2 ton bins. Yield: 40 hL/ha. Completely (100%) destemmed to two, one-tonne open-tops. Fifteen percent of fruit in bottom of tanks foot crushed, with remainder as whole berries on top. During ferment, the fermenting juice was poured back over the cap once a day to maintain freshness and to facilitate gentle extraction. Post-fermentation, the young wine was pressed after 19 days on skins, then settled and transferred to seasoned (second and third-year) French oak barrels. The wine remained in barrel for 14 months on original lees, undergoing a natural malolactic ferment during this period. Late Apr. 2024 the wine was moved to tank, sulphured and remained in tank for a further nine months prior to being racked and hand bottled in February 2025. Bottled un fined and unfiltered. A small natural deposit may occur. Sealed with cork.
Certification: Organic
Alcohol: 13.0%
Variety: Pinot Noir
Region: Marlborough, New Zealand
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