Ghost Bird Central Otago Pinot Noir 2025

93 POINTS: Sam Kim; Wine Orbit
94 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team

“Offering excellent fruit purity with elegant complexity, the wine reveals dark plum, sweet cherry, olive, clove, and toasted almond characters. It's succulent and supple in the mouth with a silky flow and layers of fine tannins, making it beautifully harmonious and structured with a lengthy, velvety finish. At its best: now to 2031.”
- Sam Kim

"Deep garnet in the glass with a violet rim. The nose is fragrant and precise - dark cherry, ripe plum, and dried white floral layered with subtle spice, wild thyme. The palate is silky, elegant, yet generous, with red and black fruits framed by fine-grained tannins and bright natural acidity. Packed full of fruit, soft, silken, and delicious. Impossible to beat at this price."
- Winemakers Notes

Ghost Bird is a Single Vineyard Pinot Noir crafted from the estate at Waikerikeri Station, a land shaped by extremes, ancient soils, and a quiet reverence for what once was. Each vintage is an expression of place, patience, and the untamed character of Central Otago’s coolest, most refined and most southerly subregion - Alexandra.

Grown exclusively at Waikerikeri Station, a 47-hectare single vineyard estate at the heart of Central Otago. Free-draining quartz gravel soils with ap-proximately 4% organic matter naturally restrict vine vigour, yielding small, intensely flavoured berries.