Rapaura Springs Reserve Marlborough Pinot Noir 2020

Rapaura Springs Reserve Marlborough Pinot Noir 2020Spicy oak Cherry & plum Silky tannins Lingering finish This velvet soft wine is full of delicious red berry, cherry and plum fruit characters. Spicy oak and silky tannins underpin the fruit flavours, combining for an elegant, lingering finish. Fruit for our 2020 Reserve Marlborough Pinot Noir is from a selection of premium Pinot Noir vineyard sites throughout Marlborough. Perfect weather over flowering in the spring of 2019 produced unprecedented

• Spicy oak
• Cherry & plum
• Silky tannins
• Lingering finish

This velvet-soft wine is full of delicious red berry, cherry and plum fruit characters. Spicy oak and silky tannins underpin the fruit flavours, combining for an elegant, lingering finish.

Fruit for our 2020 Reserve Marlborough Pinot Noir is from a selection of premium Pinot Noir vineyard sites throughout Marlborough. Perfect weather over flowering in the spring of 2019 produced unprecedented berry numbers. Fortunately, the driest summer on record then suppressed the berry growth. By harvest time, berry size was small to moderate, which has given the wines substantial structure and concentration. Late summer brought Marlborough’s trademark cooler nights, that are so important to our aromatic qualities and retention of acidity. The introduction of a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 coincided with the beginning of our harvest. Our vineyard and winery teams moved incredibly fast to adhere to the very strict distancing and hygiene protocols to allow us to continue to operate. Favourable weather allowed us to pick our Pinot Noir when perfectly ripe.

After harvest, the fruit was cold soaked for five days to extract flavour, tannins and colour. Fermentation followed, in a selection of small open top tanks, using a selection of yeasts. Each ferment was plunged three times a day. The wine was left to macerate for five days before a gentle pressing off the skins. The wine was aged in French oak barriques for 10 months, including 20% new oak.

Our Reserve wines are expertly crafted from selected vineyards with impressive flavour concentration and palate weight. Each bottle of Rapaura Springs tells the story of a lifetime. Of water and wine, and of generations of family working with nature. Our label depicts the rocky aquifer at our home vineyard, and the pristine springs that connect it to our land. We make exceptional wines that reflect our remarkable landscapes, pure waterways and passionate people.