2022 Rippon Mature Vine Pinot Noir
2022 Rippon Mature Vine Pinot Noir

2022 Rippon Mature Vine Pinot Noir

94 pts
Rippon |Central Otago |Pinot Noir
One of the Southern Hemisphere's most individual and compelling Pinot Noirs, in fine form.
Price:
$119.00
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Description

Mature Vine is Rippon’s truest voice – drawn from all the fully established Pinot blocks across the estate, many planted on their own roots back in the 80s and 90s. The vineyard spills down a north-facing slope above Lake Wānaka, where schist and glacial gravels shape wines that always carry a quiet hum of the land beneath them.

The 2022 season brought a bit more calm after the cool tension of 2021. Fruit ripened evenly, tannins came in fine and chalky, and Nick Mills let the vintage speak with minimal interference. Wild ferment, gentle extraction, long rest in oak and bottle – no additions, no shortcuts, no rush.

This release has that familiar Rippon clarity – pure red fruit, herbal edge, a mineral frame that keeps it all in focus. It’s not trying to impress, just to express. Drink it young for energy and perfume, or let it sit a few years and watch the detail unfold.

Erin Larkin

Erin Larkin

The Wine Advocate 94 Points

The 2022 Rippon Mature Vine Pinot Noir came from a warmer vintage, and it leads with abundant red fruit, exotic spice and a profusion of waxy, chalky tannin in the mouth. As usual, this is one of the highlights of the wine for me; the texture carries the delicate fruit, like a paper boat bobbing down the stream, without which, the boat would have no movement or flow. Perhaps the warmer year has imbued the wine with more "stuffing," yet it retains its mineral clarity and poise regardless. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under Diam.

The farm voice of a distinct parcel of land: Rippon. On the western board of Roy’s Bay, Lake Wānaka, Rippon’s north-facing escarpment forms the meeting point of terminal moraines and coarse gravels, all based in schist, on which some of the region’s earliest vines were planted. Rippon is a wine issued from all of the fully developed Pinot Noir vines growing in this land.

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country New Zealand
Region Central Otago
Feature Biodynamic
Cult
High Score
Natural/Lo-Fi
Organic
Reviewed By The Wine Advocate
Critic Score 94
Size 750ml
Vintage 2022
Closure DIAM Cork

Rippon

Rippon Vineyard is one of the most breathtaking sites in Central Otago.

For over a century the Mills family has farmed this small patch of earth on the banks of Lake Wanaka. Nick Mills is the fourth generation of his family to walk the rows on Rippon. He now farms the site according to biodynamic principles.

The Mills family and Rippon are intrinsically linked. There's a deep connection to the land which Nick translates into their superlative wines.

Pinot Noir, Gamay, Riesling and Gewürztraminer all excel at Rippon. The wines are made with patience and love.

In the wines of Rippon, you can sense everything that is transcendent about terroir-driven winemaking where the story of a place is told through the wines it produces.

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