World Class Pinot Pack

"A serious wine from one of Central Otago's top producers."
- Bob Campbell (The Real Review)

Burn Cottage is one of the most celebrated Pinot Noirs in New Zealand, and this is another tremendous release, that could be enjoyed young but would be best kept in the cellar for a few years.

A biodynamic vineyard from day one, this site has been groomed to perfection to produce Pinot Noir that can rival any in the world. Many believe this to be one of the most impressive versions of Pinot Noir outside of Burgundy.

Planted in only 2003, each year the vines get older, the more intense and complex the wine gets. It's the rare combination of power and finesse that sets the Burn Cottage Pinot Noir apart.

"One of the most charming and gentle expressions of Martinborough Pinot Noir you'll find..."
- Rebecca Gibb (Vinous)

Dry River is one of the premier producers of Pinot Noir in New Zealand.

This, their iconic estate release, is one of the country's most collectable and bankable Pinot Noir wines. It's a concentrated (in the context of Pinot Noir), robust wine that is made to cellar.

From a biodynamic farm established in 1979, this regional icon remains at the front of the pack for New Zealand's top wine producers.

Sous La Tour, 'Below the Tower' (of Curon) is a pure, ripe, vibrant Pinot Noir, full of red fruits, spice and raw meat all held together with a web of mineral tension.

Whole bunch ferment, three weeks on skins, and a year in mostly old oak, this could be viewed as a more conventional Jura wine but there is plenty of feral, bloody interest amid the purity.

At 530 hectares, Gevrey-Chambertin is one of the largest AC in the Cotes de Nuits. There is great diversity in aspect, soils, viticulture and ultimately, style and quality. Some of the best village wines capitalise on the diversity to combine parcels that together, are greater than the sum of their parts.

Arlaud’s Gevrey-Chambertin comes from two parcels, Les Seuvrées in the south on the border with Morey St Denis, and La Justice in the North. The two sites are know for elegance and muscle respectively and so together the balance is spot on. Arlaud is a master with transparency and the characters of these two vineyards work wonderfully together.

Top class organic village Gevrey at a great price.

"It's a beautiful wine."
- Jeb Dunnuck 

A blend from a number of the blocks on the western ridge of the Hirsch Vineyards, they aim to take fruit from the most expressive parts of their vineyard. The backbone of this wine comes from Block 7, a Burgundian massale style block, where there is no clonal homogeny, rather a multitude of clones living side by side.

These vines can trace their lineage back to a late 1800’s importation of vines from France. Alongside the vines came the leaf-roll virus which still inhabits the vines to this day. As a result, the vines struggle to produce high sugars, resulting in more delicate wines with lower ABV than we’ve come to expect from American Pinots. 

Quite a fine-boned wine with soft tannins and transparent fruit. It seduces you with complexity and mystery, and despite its delicate body, it is full of flavour: spiced red fruits, flowers, bunchy herbs, and a smoky earthen character. All this combines to create a truly exceptional and distinct wine.