RIPPON

2012 Pinot Noir Mature Vine

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin New Zealand, South Island
Classification Mature Vine
ABV 13%

This vintage represents 100 years of the family on the property, and 30 years since the first pinot planting. A warm vintage. Pale crimson to ruby. A light but fine nose, showing less ripe but very appealing fruit and a little whole bunch pepper. In fact, the perfume becomes an absolute delight, both fresh and dried roses. Very harmonious on the palate, and persistent, not the most muscled but a sheer delight in its elegant style. Few tannins, a light acidity and persistent. Drinking range: 2022 - 2028 Rating: **** Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy (Sept 2024)


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Pale ruby. Bags of integrity on the nose. Something quite agricultural about the nose but clean. Really quite delicate and distinctive. Clever Nick Mills. Really refreshing and complex. Dry end. Drinking range: 2017 - 2025 Rating: 17.5 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Mar 2017)

This is the mature-vine assemblage of the entire property and has a more granitic, schist, wet-stone and rock edge as well as delicate perfumes and hints of pepper, not to mention poached raspberries and cherry fruit. Great depth and weight and good phenolic concentration. It's all saturated in dark cherry flavors and plenty of tannins. No compromise in detail. Best from 2018, but will grow well past that. Drinking range: 2018 - Rating: 96 James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com (Dec 2016)

Racy and lively. Really quite fine and nuanced. Drinking range: 2015 - 2020 Rating: 16.5 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Sept 2016)

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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