Our Black Label Pinot Noir is our flagship wine, only made in exceptional vintages. It is a selection of the best barrels of the vintage, made from our highest Pinot Noir sites, in a full, complex and robust style. Fruit that goes into our Black Label tends to be of a darker fruit spectrum, slightly riper with a fuller, more intense mid-palate weight.

Colour – A deep red colour with purple hues.

Nose – Shows dark cherry compote, with violets and plums. There’s a cinnamon/clove spice character intermingled with forest floor and leather. An intense dark berry fruit palate.

Palate – Lovely acidity balance and a strong savoury edge. The tannin is grainy and supportive of other elements in the wine, contributed to evenly by skins, stalks and barrel.

A powerful, structural wine – one for the ages!

Winemaking notes:

• Handpicked into 10kg picking lugs from three different sites ranging from 860 – 1080m ASL
• Three Clones of Pinot Noir – 777 (20%), 115 (60%), MV6 (20%)
• Average of 15% whole cluster fermentation by native yeasts
• 21 days on skins
• Pressed and racked to French oak 228L barriques
• Natural malolactic fermentation in barrel 
• 14 months in oak.
• Blended to tank and matured in stainless steel for 6 months
• No fining or filtration
• Bottled on site