'Explorer' Single Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2022

Wine Orbit - 94 Points / 5 Stars Beautifully fruited and delightfully expressed, the bouquet shows ripe cherry, thyme, warm mushroom and subtle game notes, leading to a wonderfully rounded palate that is succulent and persistent. Stylish and instantly appealing with elegant complexity. At its best: now to 2028.

Cameron Douglas MS / The Shout - 93 points Very youthful, fruity, varietal, savoury and new. Aromas of fresh dark red cherry, roses and velvet textured raspberry flesh, a wild dried herb savoury quality and fine toasty baking spices of wood.

Soil type: Molyneux and Waenga - shallow moderately well drained, shist, loam sand. Low organic matter soils. Certified organic since 2017, planted in 2000.

Wild Yeast / Indigenous Fermentation.

10 months in French Oak, 10% new. 15% Wholebunch / clusters