Tasting note

This is as good as any 'standard' Cloudy Bay Pinot Noir I have seen. It's a wine of sinew and balance, its herb notes and fruit flavours teaming beautifully. The Te Wahi, as good as it is, felt lumbering in comparison. This wine takes flight. It races and rolls, slips and satisfies. Dark cherries, both sweet and sour. A lick of spicy oak but only that. A bit of tension. A sense of seduction. Buy. Drink : 2016 - 2024+. Score - 95. (Campbell Mattinson, winefront.com.au, June 11, 2016)

The nose of our Pinot Noir is ripe with plum, aromatic spice and red florals. The palate is focused with a savoury architecture; bittersweet chocolate, dark fruit and spice play with leather and hints of earthiness. Chalky tannins linger on a persistent finish