From one of Marlboroughs most distinctive vineyard sites, Taylors Pass Pinot Noir offers an intensely ripe, concentrated expression not often associated with the region. Its bouquet is rich with brooding dark cherry, violets, and fresh herbs, while the palate shows fine tannins, soft acidity, and graphite minerality, giving structure, focus, and length. The finish unfolds with layers of dark chocolate, dried herbs, and subtle oak spice.

Meet the producer
Crafted with a single-vineyard philosophy, this wine reflects the unique terroir of Taylors Pass in Marlborough. Precision viticulture and minimal intervention in the winery ensure a true expression of place.

Vineyard
The Taylors Pass vineyard combines stony soils, which contribute fresh floral and red-fruited notes, with silt loams that provide depth, structure, and graphite-like minerality. Warm and sheltered, the site is well suited to producing a more opulent style of Pinot Noir.

Vintage
2019 saw lower fruit set due to a cool spring, producing open bunches of small, flavour-packed berries. From January, Marlborough experienced a long, hot, dry summer with cool nightsideal conditions for achieving full flavour and phenolic ripeness while retaining natural freshness.

Winemaking
Hand-harvested fruit was fermented with indigenous yeasts in open-top stainless-steel fermenters, with hand plunging for gentle extraction. The wine matured for 14 months in French oak barriques (25% new), undergoing wild malolactic fermentation and minimal fining with egg whites.

Tasting notes
Intense dark cherry and violet aromatics with herbal undertones. A finely structured palate of supple tannins and soft acidity, lifted by graphite minerality. The finish is long and layered with chocolate, herbs, and subtle oak spice.

Food match
An elegant match for turkey, lamb, or pan-seared tuna.

Grape
Pinot Noir 100%