2024 Ata Rangi Crimson Pinot Noir

94 pts
Younger vine wine from the legends of NZ Pinot Noir, Ata Rangi. Top value!
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Crimson is Ata Rangi’s “younger sibling” Pinot, but it’s never just a simple second wine. Named in support of Project Crimson, the trust dedicated to protecting New Zealand’s native pōhutukawa and rātā trees, it’s a wine with both heart and purpose.

The fruit comes from younger vines on the Martinborough Terrace and is made with the same philosophy as Ata Rangi’s flagship Pinot: indigenous yeasts, gentle handling, no shortcuts. Mostly destemmed fruit keeps the style supple and fruit-driven, while a small whole-bunch component brings lift and spice.

The 2024 vintage was a standout across the region, and it shows here. Juicy red cherry, hibiscus and wild herbs lead into a palate that’s plush but fresh, with fine, velvety tannins and a flicker of crushed rock savouriness. It’s expressive, deliciously drinkable now, but with enough depth to develop for a few more years in the cellar.

Crimson remains one of the best introductions to Ata Rangi’s style – generous, approachable, and unmistakably Martinborough.

Sam Kim

Sam Kim

Wine Orbit 94 Points

Elegantly perfumed and inviting, the bouquet shows sweet cherry, plum, floral, fennel, and toasted almond notes. The palate displays excellent weight and silky flow, complemented by fleshy texture and beautifully infused tannins, making it harmonious and balanced with a lengthy, velvety finish. At its best: now to 2032

Cam Douglas MS

Cam Douglas MS

Cam Douglas MS 94 Points

It is delicious! A vibrant bouquet of fruit reflecting the variety and stellar vintage with aromas and flavours of ripe dark skinned red berry fruits, plum and cherry, baked raspberry and earth-smoke of dark clay and stone. There’s a judicious measure of wood with suggestions of some clove dust and vanilla then a gentle wood smoke quality. Fine tannins and medium+ acid line a wine ready to drink today and through 2032

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    Clare D.
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    3 weeks ago
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    One of my favourite pinot noir's

    Cherry and raspberry, with a hint of rosemary, lovely red colour. Smooth and elegant and drinking well now.

The season started well with no real frost damage and good canopy growth. Warm weather in October and November resulted in a good solid flowering. With low bunch good flowering was opportune. January was dry and very warm. Veraison started well around the 24th of January but stalled with the rain and cool weather that hit early February and continued throughout the month. Earlier ripening clones such as clone 5 and the Dijon selections were more adversely affected than our stalwart Abel.

Hand picking was slow and meticulous to ensure only the best fruit made it across the sorting table, the addition of the new Pellenc Destemmer meant that the fruit that made it to fermenter was in mint condition.

Price Bracket $41 to $50
Type Red
Body Light Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country New Zealand
Region Martinborough
Feature Women in Wine
Critic Score 94
Size 750ml
Vintage 2022
Closure Screw Cap

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