Premium Pinot Noir

2008 Two Paddocks Pinot Noir

A blend made from our three vineyards – Gibbston, Alexandra, and Redbank at Earnscleugh, this wine is a quintessential cool climate Pinot Noir. As in the vineyard, this wine is handcrafted using traditional methods and aged in small French oak barrels for 11 months, using a mix of older and new (30%) barrels.

Winemakers Tasting Notes:

Dark black fruit, spicy notes and dried herb aromas. This is a dense, dark brooding wine showing loads of texture, depth and persistence. This wine will benefit with bottle age. Approachable in its youth, it will mellow with age. The fruit was picked by different vineyard block and by clone. Each pick was fermented separately, with the final blending taking place prior to bottling.

Vintage Comments:

As usual the 2008 vintage provided its fair share of challenges, the most notable being early frosts in Gibbston and late frosts in the Alexandra basin. But on the whole it pretty good season with excellent fruit set followed by near perfect weather during the growing season. This is undoubtly our biggest crop to date which in time will give us a classic Central Otago Pinot – elegant, complex and well structured full of the typical spice and fruit.

Viticulturalist: Richard Flatman

Winemaker: Dean Shaw -- Central Otago Wine Company

Bottled: 7 - 9 April 2009

Total Production: 3791 cases

Exported to:Australia, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Ontario, United States

Release Date: February 2010

Cellaring: 2009 – 2016