Peregrine Pinot Noir

Wine information: Peregrine Wines is located amongst the rugged mountains and lakes of Queenstown, Central Otago, in New Zealand’s South Island. The region is the closest they have in New Zealand to a continental climate. Peregrine's prime focus is on growing premium Pinot Noir and white varieties from their estate managed vineyards. These are all meticulously hand-tended and farmed under a sustainable philosophy. Peregrine has its vineyards in the two top regions of the area, Gibbston and Cromwell. These areas typically produce intensely flavoured wines of finesse and elegance with the predominantly schist soils adding mineral complexity. From modest beginnings in 1998, the label has grown from a ‘virtual’ operation to a modern winery containing lots of stainless steel, oak barriques and diligent (sometimes sleep deprived) employees. The winemaking approach, however, has always been along traditional lines with minimal intervention to let the unique fruit flavours of Central Otago do the talking. The fruit was carefully hand harvested from selected vineyards, destemmed without crushing to open top fermenters. The fruit was given a 3-7 day cold maceration prior to warm fermentation. The fermented fruit then had an extended post fermentation maceration to help with tannin extraction and integration. The average time on skins was approximately three weeks. The resulting wine was pressed to French oak barrels (27% new) where it spent 10 months. The wine will be racked from barrel and lightly filtered before being bottled. The 2009 Peregrine Pinot Noir has an expressive nose that has mocha, cherry and raspberries. The palate has wonderful flavours of spice, dark cherries, raspberries, and mouth caressing silky fine grain tannins.  While this wine is fantastic now it will reward the patient for many years to come.

 
     

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