Holly South Series Pinot Noir

Our Holly range is the best we produce. As our reserve range, named after the owners’ daughter, they are our stand-out vintage to vintage.

The Matahiwi vineyard is situated on an alluvial boulder ridge in the Masterton district of Wairarapa. With warm free draining soils and the cool dry local climate, this is an ideal place to grow Pinot Noir.

This wine is harvested from the very best parcels of fruit on our Home Estate, typically from low-yielding vines on the lowest vigour areas within the vineyard.

This 2021 Pinot Noir nose has bold aromas of wild roses, blueberry and spice. The palate is packed with vibrant fruit, tannins and acidity combined in a seamless finish. Excellent with a kiwi classic roast lamb, or goat curry.

Vineyard

The vineyard blocks selected for the Holly South Series Pinot Noir receive additional attention, with hand leaf plucking, shoot and fruit thinning to achieve optimum ripeness. The vineyard is planted in eight clones of Pinot Noir and for this wine we used 48% Abel, 30% Clone 5, 13% 667 and 9% 777 to build a complex and integrated blend. A long dry growing season delivered intense fruit with small concentrated berries , great colour and ripe tannins.

Winemaking

The fruit was harvested by clone and fermented in small open top tanks, each with a portion of whole bunches. After around 3 weeks on skins the wines were run to barrels 20% of which were new, where malolactic fermentation occurred. After twelve months the blend was assembled and prepared for bottling.

PH= 3.49

TA= 5.77

RS=Dry >1

Winemaker: Miles Dineen