New Zealand

The 2020 Pinot Noir Home is a fluid, expansive style, that focuses on its supple texture. It blossoms on the palate, no doubt helped by its sedimentary clay soils. Both the acidity and its slippery clay-like tannic textu...(read more)

From the best, most limestone-influenced bits of this vineyard that used to be owned by Trinity Hill in a joint venture with Pascal Jolivet, so was originally planted mainly with Sauvignon Blanc which is now being replac...(read more)

The 2023 Pinot Noir Bannockburn is highly fragrant, exuding florals, raspberries and blackberries. There's a savory, smoky essence which combines with the primary red fruit and rich plum fruit to make a slightly wild fin...(read more)

The 2021 Pinot Noir Bannockburn offers fine tension and sinew. I rather like it for being understated and having a corset of acidity and tannic tension around it. Sour red cherry, damson, wild herbs, a twist of nutmeg an...(read more)

From Lake Wanaka. Aged for 12 months in mostly old French oak barrels. Biodynamically farmed. Vibrant crimson. Pure, focused, detailed red fruit. Elegant. Sandalwood and spice weaving through the fruit in fantasti...(read more)

The 2022 Pinot Noir Calvert is an intriguingly fragrant wine, evoking the medicinal herbs of an Italian aperitivo alongside cherries, fruit cake and festive spices, which continue on the palate. It fills the mouth but do...(read more)

The 2022 Pinot Noir Cornish Point is an elegant, stylish wine with precision and poise. It tickles the nose with its fragrance, almost dancing up your nostrils, bringing woody green herbs to your olfactory. Christmas spi...(read more)

The 2018 Emma's Block Mature Vine Pinot Noir is all about tannins this year. They swarm through the mouth with buzzing energy and movement and seem to be seamlessly attached to the flavor at every juncture. A wine that c...(read more)