Nautilus Estate Southern Valleys Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019
- Spicy oak
- Dark cherry
- Ripe cassis
- Silky texture
"Deep, flavoursome Pinot Noir from a very favourable vintage. Made with a light touch to produce a silken-textured wine with lush, ripe cassis, dark cherry, plum, anise, and spicy oak flavours. Delicious wine that is accessible now but should develop well with a little bottle age" Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review, Jun 2022
The 2019 Nautilus Pinot Noir is dark ruby in colour. The complex nose displays dark cherries, plums, earthy notes and a touch of toasty spice. The palate is concentrated and elegant with a fine dense core of tannins and a long savoury finish. The primary fruit components showing in the wines youth will further develop and integrate over the next five years as the wine matures.
The 2019 season started with no significant frost issues and reasonable spring rains to keep canopies healthy. Some cool weather during flowering affected the bunch size of some varieties – particularly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and as a result very little thinning was required. Pinot Noir this year is spectacular, with the grapes in excellent condition and the young wines show great colour, fruit concentration and structure. This vintage will certainly be a contender for ‘best yet’ for this variety.
To make this wine, fruit from Pinot Noir clones 114, 115, 5, 667 and 777 was hand harvested and de-stemmed without crushing to allow a portion of whole berries in the ferment. A small amount of whole bunch fruit was also included in some ferments (average 20% whole bunch). The grapes were fermented with indigenous yeast in open top fermenters after a 7-12 day ‘cold soak’. Careful cap management, using our pneumatic punch down device, has resulted in extraction of only the soft ripe tannins. After pressing the wine was racked directly to a mixture of new and older French oak Barriques (25% new), where it remained undisturbed until filtration and bottling in February 2020.
Food Pairing: Beautiful accompanied by venison with star anise.
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Nautilus Estate Southern Valleys Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019
Nautilus Estate Southern Valleys Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019
- Spicy oak
- Dark cherry
- Ripe cassis
- Silky texture
"Deep, flavoursome Pinot Noir from a very favourable vintage. Made with a light touch to produce a silken-textured wine with lush, ripe cassis, dark cherry, plum, anise, and spicy oak flavours. Delicious wine that is accessible now but should develop well with a little bottle age" Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review, Jun 2022
The 2019 Nautilus Pinot Noir is dark ruby in colour. The complex nose displays dark cherries, plums, earthy notes and a touch of toasty spice. The palate is concentrated and elegant with a fine dense core of tannins and a long savoury finish. The primary fruit components showing in the wines youth will further develop and integrate over the next five years as the wine matures.
The 2019 season started with no significant frost issues and reasonable spring rains to keep canopies healthy. Some cool weather during flowering affected the bunch size of some varieties – particularly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and as a result very little thinning was required. Pinot Noir this year is spectacular, with the grapes in excellent condition and the young wines show great colour, fruit concentration and structure. This vintage will certainly be a contender for ‘best yet’ for this variety.
To make this wine, fruit from Pinot Noir clones 114, 115, 5, 667 and 777 was hand harvested and de-stemmed without crushing to allow a portion of whole berries in the ferment. A small amount of whole bunch fruit was also included in some ferments (average 20% whole bunch). The grapes were fermented with indigenous yeast in open top fermenters after a 7-12 day ‘cold soak’. Careful cap management, using our pneumatic punch down device, has resulted in extraction of only the soft ripe tannins. After pressing the wine was racked directly to a mixture of new and older French oak Barriques (25% new), where it remained undisturbed until filtration and bottling in February 2020.
Food Pairing: Beautiful accompanied by venison with star anise.
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- Spicy oak
- Dark cherry
- Ripe cassis
- Silky texture
"Deep, flavoursome Pinot Noir from a very favourable vintage. Made with a light touch to produce a silken-textured wine with lush, ripe cassis, dark cherry, plum, anise, and spicy oak flavours. Delicious wine that is accessible now but should develop well with a little bottle age" Bob Campbell, Master of Wine, Real Review, Jun 2022
The 2019 Nautilus Pinot Noir is dark ruby in colour. The complex nose displays dark cherries, plums, earthy notes and a touch of toasty spice. The palate is concentrated and elegant with a fine dense core of tannins and a long savoury finish. The primary fruit components showing in the wines youth will further develop and integrate over the next five years as the wine matures.
The 2019 season started with no significant frost issues and reasonable spring rains to keep canopies healthy. Some cool weather during flowering affected the bunch size of some varieties – particularly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and as a result very little thinning was required. Pinot Noir this year is spectacular, with the grapes in excellent condition and the young wines show great colour, fruit concentration and structure. This vintage will certainly be a contender for ‘best yet’ for this variety.
To make this wine, fruit from Pinot Noir clones 114, 115, 5, 667 and 777 was hand harvested and de-stemmed without crushing to allow a portion of whole berries in the ferment. A small amount of whole bunch fruit was also included in some ferments (average 20% whole bunch). The grapes were fermented with indigenous yeast in open top fermenters after a 7-12 day ‘cold soak’. Careful cap management, using our pneumatic punch down device, has resulted in extraction of only the soft ripe tannins. After pressing the wine was racked directly to a mixture of new and older French oak Barriques (25% new), where it remained undisturbed until filtration and bottling in February 2020.
Food Pairing: Beautiful accompanied by venison with star anise.
