Tasting note
Stylish wine with lots of complexity. Deep in colour with dark cherry, plum and floral aromas. Exceptional depth and complexity with cherry, plum and sweet spice on the palate. Full-bodied with a finely textured finish.
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Reviews
Reviews for Quartz Reef Anna von Tirol Pinot Noir 2022:
Emma Jenkins MW
Decanter
While fairly closed at first, this soon opens up with opulently perfumed nose, layered red/black fruits, florals, spice, a lot of earth and vinosity here too, hard to tease it all apart both on the nose and palate. Textural and compact with wonderfully integrated fruit/oak tannins and a spine of bright acidity, this is clearly built for the long haul while offering a lot of joy already. Drinking Window: 2024 - 2035.
Jamie Goode
Wine Anorak
Lovely concentration here. Textured with nice spicy structure, some cherry and plum fruit, and some grainy detail. Very stylish: give this time.
Additional information
Type: Red wine
Varietal: 100% Pinot Noir
Food match: Serve with wild duck and pork dishes, e.g. confit duck leg with parsnip and quince.
Wine region: Bendigo, Central Otago, New Zealand. With a vine density of 5,000 - 8,000 plants per hectare on grafted pinot noir clones, planted in 1998. The soils on the beautiful north facing slope are Waenga fine sandy loam and Letts steepland with an elevation from 217 – 264 metres, on 44.55° south.
Vintage: The season started with mild temperatures throughout Spring, an earlier than
usual budburst and rainfall in late Nov/early Dec providing good levels of
moisture. We were challenged with two severe cold fronts during budburst and
flowering which despite frost fighting efforts resulted in a smaller crop. Warm
and settled weather followed producing overall a hotter than usual growing
season. With veraison starting in the last week of January, we began (to expect)
yet another early harvest. The 2019 vintage impression is extremely good
quality
Winemaking: Hand-picked on the 28th March. Cold soaked for 4 days before indigenous yeast fermentation kicked in with 16% whole bunch. Gentle hand plunging throughout ferment, followed by post-fermentation maceration of 9 days to ensure optimum fruit and tannin balance. Total time on skin; 26 days. Drained directly into selected French oak barriques (100% one year old) where the wine aged for 14 months during which wild malolactic fermentation occurs.
Production: Only 800 bottles made.
Cellaring potential: 2029+
Alcohol: 14% vol
Total Acidity: 5.9 g/l
Residual sugar: <1 g/l
Bottle size: 0.75l
Notice: contains sulphites
Produced and bottled by: Quartz Reef, PO Box 63, Cromwell, Central Otago 9342, New Zealand
Distributor: vinabonus GmbH, Simmedenweg 40, 34134 Kassel, Germany