Rippon 'Lolo's' Mature Vine Pinot Noir 2019

Rippon 'Lolo's' Mature Vine Pinot Noir 2019

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"The black cherry, mulberry and black raspberry core is accented by nuances of violets, truffles, earth, Chinese five spice and garrigue. It’s wonderfully spicy in the mouth ­ tons of cinnamon ­ with firm grainy tannins and just enough acid to provide ample foundation for the intense flavors, all packed into a medium body."

This is a one-off wine to celebrate our co-founder, Lois Mills’ 70th birthday and acknowledge all that she has given to this remarkable piece of land. Lolo’s Block itself, from where the fruit comes, is a parcel that sits atop the Rippon hill on glacial moraine and strong schist bedrock that resisted the efforts of the glaciers to topple it. Rare for Rippon, the vines are a mix of 2000-planted Dijon clones on American rootstock. They were picked by hand into small, 10kg cases allowing the fruit to arrive at the winery’s sorting table undamaged, then fermented in 2-tonne stainless-steel tanks by the winery’s resident yeast population (non-inoculated). Following an 18-day cuvaison the wine was aged for 16 months in new (17%) and old French oak barrels then run directly into bottle without filtering or fining.

The resulting wine is balanced between the vibrant fruit of modern clonal material and the detailed tannins that Rippon’s most elevated, rocky and exposed site can generate.  Special!

 

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Rippon Vineyards

A complete farm entity, Rippon is a unique and distinct parcel of land on the shore of Lake Wanaka which, for over a hundred years, has been cared for by successive generations of the Mills family. It is Wanaka’s oldest vineyard and the Mills family chose well as the temperate climate helps with consistency. They also secured one of the most scene vineyards in New Zealand. 

 

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Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir produces some of the world's most expensive, most lauded, rarest and delicious wines. Equally it is one of the most difficult grapes to grow successfully and as a result it is quite hard to make a balanced Pinot Noir. It is historically from Burgundy, most specifically in the Cote de Nuits, so much so that people will refer to Pinot Noir as a 'Burgundy'.

 

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Central Otago

Central Otago is one of the most southerly wine regions in the world and it is most commonly referred to as Pinot Central, in New Zealand. It has a long history of winemaking dating back to the mid 1800s and in fact a 'Burgundy' from Central Otago won a gold medal in a Sydney wine competition in 1881. A few winemakers including Alan Brady helped to craft it into a leading Pinot Noir region for the world thanks to his fruit-bombs. Many fantastic aromatic white wines excel here also.