Maude

Mt Maude Pinot Noir

Hand harvested from the Mt Maude family vineyard in Wanaka, planted in 1994. The Mt Maude Vineyard Pinot Noir has an extended growing season, giving additional time for the grapes to ripen fully, where seeds brown, skins toughen, flavours develop and most importantly stalks fully lignify. This enables the Maude family to use whole bunch (100%) in the ferment, creating a wine with sinewy structure from stalk tannin and the “crushed herb and spice” aromas which are the precursor to the ethereal forest floor, violet or alluring perfume great pinot’s have. Fermented very traditionally in open topped tanks, hand plunged and using indigenous yeasts.