Mills Reef Reserve Marlborough Pinot Noir 2020

Mills Reef Reserve Marlborough Pinot Noir 2020French oak Cherry & boysenberry Fruit cake spice Velvety tannins Delightfully approachable, yet complex, this supple rich Marlborough Pinot Noir exudes sweet cherry and lavender aromas, with vibrant boysenberry fruit flavours, beautifully complemented with fruit cake spice and savoury oak. Velvety refined tannins lead to a mouthfilling and a lingering finish. Serve with grilled quail on a nest of green micro herbs. The grapes for this generous wine

• French oak
• Cherry & boysenberry
• Fruit cake spice
• Velvety tannins

Delightfully approachable, yet complex, this supple rich Marlborough Pinot Noir exudes sweet cherry and lavender aromas, with vibrant boysenberry fruit flavours, beautifully complemented with fruit cake spice and savoury oak. Velvety refined tannins lead to a mouthfilling and a lingering finish. Serve with grilled quail on a nest of green micro herbs.

The grapes for this generous wine were grown in the Marlborough region, on low yielding vines. After a long hot summer and the vines in perfect health the grapes were picked at ideal ripeness and flavour profile.

The grapes were gently crushed and allowed to cold soak for 3 days to extract important colour and flavour components.  Fermentation proceeded with light plunging for further colour, flavour and fine tannin extraction. After a short post ferment skin contact regime, the resulting wine was then sent to barrel for sixteen months ageing in quality French oak (20% new wood) to enhance its natural structure.  The wine received a light egg white fining and was cross flow filtered prior to bottling on 14th December 2021 under screwcap closure.