The 2008 Pinot Noir is a beautiful round and well textured wine with a fragrance of ripe cherries, wild violets and ‘forrest floor on an early autumn day’. In the mouth the wine is weighty with black tea tannins, shows great length and beautiful balance between sweet ripe berrie fruit and more savoury characters such as ‘leather saddles’ and barnyard characteristics which will develop over time in the bottle. A very attractive wine, lots of ‘pinosity’ and a fabulous companion with food.
What the critics say...
Wine Spectator: 91 points(30/04/2010)
Light and velvety, with lovely detailed red cherry and cranberry aromas and flavors, hinting at citrus peel and white pepper as the finish lingers effortlessly. Drink now through 2015.
Pairing: Aged Cheese, Game Animals, Grilled Red Meats, Legume, Roasts, Stews.
All the wines are from the grapes produced in the family’s property, on the road of Rapaura, Marlborough. This means that we do enormous efforts in the vineyards to obtain the stable vines which constantly deliver the healthiest fruit, with the concentrated flavors of Marlborough. When we crushed... the grapes, we consolidate those flavors using the traditionals wine making process combined with the best modern technology. The vineyard of Staete Landt is designed to produce a single vineyard, handmade wines with complexity and the careful use of the variation of the clone, and of the terroir. We design carefully the vineyard around the styles of wines that desire to produce, not the reverse. It is in the vineyard where our more important work is found, so that the vines can be healthy, to deliver a mature fruit and obtain the different aromas and flavours of Marlborough. The productions are very low. The 1999 Marlborough environmental prize was granted to our vineyard because of our technic in wise practice of an intricate design in the irrigation based on the characteristics of the soil, grapes varieties and resources of scarce water. In other words, since an environmental view, it put in practice the design of the vineyard, showed to be an example for the progresses of future vineyards. We have divided the vineyard in 18 plots with private clones and separated them by different types of soils. It requires constant attention in the vineyard as the different types of varieties ripes earlier or later depending on the ground. To produce bunches of mature and healthy grapes with intense flavors, we pratice green harvest of the diverse varieties. This is controlled for the very final practical pruning. Each block or plot of the vineyard are worked for separated to handle efficiently the growth. The entire vineyard is planted in rows of 2,4 meters and the majority of the vines are separated by 1,8 meters.
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