2020 Craggy Range Aroha Pinot Noir

Highly Rated
The top of the line Pinot Noir from Craggy Range, one of Martinborough's finest wines.

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Description

"Aroha", translated from the Māori language, means "Love".

This wine is winemaker Julian Grounds' love letter to the Pinot Noir grape. It's crafted from Craggy Range's two finest parcels of Pinot Noir fruit and is treated with the utmost care and attention every step of the winemaking process.

The fruit is picture perfect when it enters the winery. Around half of the fruit ferments as whole bunches giving the wine excellent architecture and a hint of stalky spice. The destemmed fruit gives the wine a seductive silkiness that will make you swoon.

This sits in the top echelon of all Pinot Noir in the Martinborough region.

Aroha is a romantic word in the Māori language of New Zealand meaning love. Reflective of its namesake, Aroha is handcrafted with passion from two unique parcels of Pinot Noir, including one of the legendary Abel clone. The fruit is grown on a slope of an elevate terrace of fertile land at the Te Muna Road vineyard where an ancient dried river bed delivered nutrient rich soil perfect for growing Pinot Noir.

98 Points - "A few months ago I tasted and enthused about a barrel sample of this wine and am pleased to report that it is as I remembered it. It has lost a bit of puppy fat perhaps but remains a supremely suave and stylish pinot noir with layers of cherry, berry, violet, five-spice, anise, struck-flint and nutty oak flavours. Fruit sweetness, gentle acidity and fine tannins marry into each other to give the wine a seamless backbone. It defines elegance. I look forward to re-tasting it after a few more years in bottle." - Bob Campbell (The Real Review)

94 Points - "From the upmarket bits of Craggy Range’s Te Muna Road vineyard in Martinborough. Julian Grounds making waves with the style changes and 1%ers at Craggy Range; what a coup that they landed him. Meanwhile, fine pinot noir in the glass…

Supple, plush pinot with dark cherry, sour plum, char and smoky spice notes, some graphite and wet earth notes too. Feels mellow and satiny in the palate with a building smoky spice, twiggy wood and espresso-like bitterness in the mix, well matched to the concentration of dark fruits, might I add. Feels serious, complex, well-seasoned and indeed that could be a quibble, the way oak plays its hand here. Nonetheless, an impressive, serious pinot noir that those seeking some heft from the variety will beeline for." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

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