Rapaura Springs Reserve Marlborough Pinot Noir 750ml

Tasting Notes

This velvet-soft wine is full of delicious red berry, cherry and plum fruit aromas and flavours, with silky tannins.

Add this Pinot Noir to pair with our Chicken or Steak. Also perfect with our wide range of cheese. 

Wine Maker Notes

The introduction of a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 coincided with the beginning of our harvest. The vineyard and winery teams at Raparua Springs moved incredibly fast to adhere to the very strict distancing and hygiene protocols to allow them to continue to operate. Favourable weather allowed them to pick the Pinot Noir when perfectly ripe. After harvest, the fruit was cold-soaked for five days to extract flavour, tannins and colour. Fermentation followed, in a selection of small open-top tanks, using a selection of yeasts. Each ferment was plunged three times a day. The wine was left to macerate for five days before a gentle pressing off the skins. The wine was aged in French oak barriques for 10 months, including 20% new oak.