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2009 Emma's Block Pinot Noir Mature Vine
| Grapes | Pinot Noir |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | New Zealand, South Island |
| Classification | Mature Vine |
| ABV | 13% |
A unique parcel within Rippon, Emma’s Block faces eastward on the lakefront where ancient clay reefs run laterally through fine schist gravels. Emma’s Block is named after the great-great-great grandmother of the current generation of the Mills family, through whom the name entered into the family. L&S (Jan 2012)
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Medium deep crimson. The bouquet took a little coaxing, but then the charm of the fruit really emerges. Nonetheless the taut and precise style of the odd numbered vintages shows through on the palate. There is still plenty in reserve here. Drinking range: 2024 - 2029 Rating: **** Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy (Sept 2024)
This boasts wonderful vibrancy, as firm tannins provide a serious framework for the cherry and raspberry flavours, giving them a taut edge. Details include sage, rosemary and white pepper. Drink now through 2016. Rating: 91 Lisa Perrotti-Brown, RobertParker.com (Sept 2014)
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This has the earthy scent of a rose garden. Its relatively light colour belies the intensity of flavour, a pretty, vinous character with tension between its juciness and structure. Nick Mills farms his family's lakeside estate in Wanaka under biodynamics, separating out this east-facing block where the soil includes clay as well as fine schist gravels. It has a more delivate expression than his other pinots, ghosting earth and roses in the finish. Rating: 94 Wine & Spirits - wineandspiritsmagazine.com (Oct 2013)
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Nick Mills returned home after several years away, working with the likes of Alain and Sophie Meunier at Domaine JJ Confuron, and Pascal Marchand (late of Domaine Comte Armand and then at Domaine de la Vougeraie). This experience with some of the leading players in Burgundy fired him up with enthusiasm, and we are already seeing the fruits of his experience in the changes in viticulture (to bio-dynamism) and the increased depth of mineral complexity in the wines.
Nick Mills on Biodynamics: 'Granted custodianship over this very special piece of land, the family's principle goal is to create vins de terroir, wines that are an accurate reflection of their surroundings. It is the micro-life in our soils which, in their ability to metabolise minerals into a form that vines can assimilate, are the link in between plants and the earth. This simple biology is the essential framework in producing a wine which is true to its soil and site. With this understanding comes an absolute respect for the land and life therein and it is for this reason that Rippon is run biodynamically.
Decisions made in the vineyard and winery first consider the effect the outcome may have on the micro-flora of the soils, vines & wines. Rippon does not use herbicides, fungicides, pesticides or soluble nitrogenous fertilisers on the property. All the property's organic waste matter is recycled to make around 40 tonnes of fungal dominant compost every year. This is spread back over the land during the first descending moon after harvest as an inoculation of beneficial micro-flora for the whole property...and thus starts a diverse and vital web of life on which to live and produce.
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