Pinot Noir Masters Vineyard, Ata Rangi 2024

I love the bouquet of this wine with a perfumed, floral purity then fruit, cool red skinned fruit scents of cherry and pacific rose apple skin, roses and violets then earth-smoke of clay and red soils, spices of French oak and a synergy that delivers complexity and seductive charm. A dry wine touches the palate with super fine through chalk-dust textured tannins and a backbone of acidity deliver power and charm. Flavours of raspberry and violets, tart cherry and ripe yellow plum, violet and rose with a whisper of lavender and rosemary. A completely delicious wine with purity and finesse, power and groove. A lengthy finish with a decent palate squeeze of youthful.

Medium-deep purple-tinted colour, with dried-herb/underbrush and black plum aromas, full body and abundant drying tannins that provide a bit of chew at the finish, including faint bitterness. It would respond well to food with protein. Excellent depth of flavour, elegance and length: this promises much if cellared for a while—at least a year.