FELTON ROAD
2024 Pinot Noir Bannockburn
| Grapes | Pinot Noir |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | New Zealand, South Island |
| ABV | 13.5% |
| Vineyard | Bannockburn |
The 2024 Bannockburn Pinot Noir is dark fruited and plush, with nutmeg biscuit and cranberry, blood plum and mulberry. The wine is exotic and peppered with baking spices—one assumes this is via the oak rather than the fruit. 2024 was a superb vintage in Central Otago, and the wines that I have seen so far echo this. It seems this wine just needs a little more time—or a decant—in order to show its best. It's very impressive regardless. 13.8% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Drinking range: 2025 - 2034 Rating: 92 Erin Larkin, www.RobertParker.com (Jan 2026)
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We offer free nationwide delivery on all orders over £150 (excluding Highlands & Islands). Express Delivery options also available.Attractive and ready to drink from release, the 2024 Pinot Noir Bannockburn is pure and unadulterated with aromas of freshly picked blackberries, black cherry and blueberry. The palate is very welcoming, with juicy, succulent fruit and a softness on the mid-palate. The medium-long finish is scented and attractive, with spices, cedar and a sense of line. This is a very pleasurable but classy Pinot from the off. Drinking range: 2026 - 2031 Rating: 92 Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous.com (Jul 2025)
Felton Road
Felton Road and Rippon are undoubtedly the two leading vineyards in Central Otago, both making Pinots that are finely textured with fresh fruit flavours, rather than the 'fruit bombs' that so many others produce. Felton Road has been totally organic and biodynamic across their three Bannockburn vineyards since 2005. They have been certified by Demeter since 2009. After that there are more differences than similarities.
While Rippon, at Wanaka is on schist, Felton Road in Banockburn is on clay and calcareous loess. It is also very much in the rain shadow of the Main Divide. Irrigation is used at Rippon to help establish young vines, but dry farming is possible once the vines get their roots down, while at Felton Road permanent irrigation is required for the entire vineyard.
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