Novum Pinot Noir 2020

Deep, ruby-red, with some purple hues. Rich and highly fragrant with dark red berry fruit, dried herb, cigar box and subtle earthy notes. Mouth-filling, generous with a core of ripe cherry, plum and spice flavours, yet savoury too. A wine with great textural interest and detail, opulence but also some seriousness.

The fruit for this wine was grown in the highly regarded Southern Valleys, sub region of Marlborough. The higher day time temperatures in the narrow valleys of this part of the region, coupled with the heavy clay loam soils that help bring the wine richness and concentration - make it the perfect environment to grow high quality Pinot Noir grapes.

Hand harvested. Once de-stemmed into open top fermenters the grapes sit on skins (about 5 days) prior to starting off a wild yeast fermentation, then pumped over 2-3 times a day during active ferment. After 35+ days on skins the wine is pressed, racked and transferred to French oak barriques (30% new oak).

The wine is aged in barrel for 12 months with the final wine being blended in late January and bottled in February 2021.