RIPPON

2011 Pinot Noir Mature Vine

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin New Zealand, South Island
Classification Mature Vine
ABV 14%

Open and glorious with cherry, spice and dark chocolate. Full-bodied, soft and opened, beautiful and delicious. Strawberry, plum and a hint of pie crust. but it's so subtle. Then it goes to mushroom and forest floor. Drink or hold. Rating: 96 James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com (Nov 2023)


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Chalky, loamy notes of earth lend a great backbone to this serious wine, featuring dried porcino, star anise and Earl Grey tea details. Drink now through 2030. Rating: 92 MaryAnn Worobiec, The Wine Spectator (Jul 2015)

If you think you already know Central Otago pinot, you may well have to think again. On a recent visit, I was struck by how different the styles were. Many producers now use natural yeasts, which accentuate the differences between wines such as Rippon’s dark, powerful Mature Vine Pinot Noir 2011, which needs at least two to three years to reveal its character, and could age for many more.Fiona Beckett, The Guardian - www.matchingfoodandwine.com (Feb 2015)

A very upbeat and brightly fruited edition of Rippon's estate bottling. This amalgam of vineyard parcels has bright yellow plum fruits on the nose with a complex array of spices, meat and pepper and the signature dark stones of the site. The palate has complex and juicy tannin that deliver lively active textural appeal, liquorice, spiced plum and dark cherry. Terrific wine with much to come. Rating: 94 James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com (May 2014)

Rippon

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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