OYSTER BAY PINOT NOIR

Oyster Bay Pinot Noir

Fragrant dark cherry with juicy black plum, elegant and silky. A youthful expressiveness, with seductive silky complexity and dark fruit flavours. Matured in French oak barrels the result is fragrant, soft, and flavorful, with aromas of ripe cherries and sweet fruit tannins that provide structure and length.

VARIETIES: Pinot Noir
REGION: Marlborough
AGEING: Combination of barrel and tank fermentation and mature the wine in a range of new and older French oak
GUARDING POTENTIAL: 5 years ±
SERVE: Serve at 15ºC – 16ºC

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Marlborough | Range | Oyster Bay

Nestled at the top of New Zealand’s South Island, Marlborough is one of the world’s most distinctive and exciting wine regions, its exquisite Sauvignon Blanc launching the country onto the international wine stage in the 1980s and now home to some of the world’s most remarkable cool climate wines.

While we may believe our alluvial soils to be ancient, in the scheme of ancient wine regions, we are considered to be quite young with soils laid down only within the last 14,000 years. Once a towering glacier, the plains of Marlborough’s valleys are the trail of its slow retreat as masses of rock debris were carried down to the coast by melt-water rivers. As these stones bask in plentiful sunshine, vine roots edge beneath to find nutrients. When the air cools at night, the stones share with the vines the warmth they have collected over the day, to help create the immaculate flavours synonymous with this special place.