Mondillo Central Otago Pinot Noir 2024
5 STARS: Michael Cooper MA ONZM
95 POINTS: Cameron Douglas MS
"Fabulous bouquet and palate — a wine of distinction and purity. Aromas and flavours of dark cherry and roasted blackcurrant, with a savoury quality from wild thyme and sage, followed by toasty barrel spices. Firm, taut and dry, this is a wine that will age well. It can also be enjoyed immediately; the core fruit flavours and gentle sweetness from oak and alcohol support this. Complex, layered and long. Enjoy with food today, or cellar."
- Cameron Douglas MS
"The impressive, very youthful 2024 vintage as estate-grown at Bendigo, hand-picked and matured for 11 months in French oak barriques (25 per cent new). Full, bright ruby, it is mouthfilling, sweet-fruited and savoury, with very good density of vibrant cherry, plum and spice flavours, finely integrated oak, fresh acidity, and the structure to age well for many years."
- Michael Cooper MA ONZM
Deeply coloured with a stunning sweet cherry fragrance and a spicy nut bouquet. Generous sweet cherry and plum flavours with finely integrated oak. This vintage is beautifully balanced with a silky velvety richness. The fruit was hand harvested in March 2024, 100% de-stemmed followed by a long cold maceration, fermented slowly and gently pressed. This wine has been filtered, is unfined and aged in French oak barriques, of which 25% were new, for 11 months.
ABV: 13.5%