Ata Rangi Martinborough Single Vineyard Kotinga Pinot Noir 2024 (750ml)

A lively, seductive pinot noir with a succulent, focused character, showing red cherries, bitter orange peel, warm herbs and some baking spices. Medium-bodied with silky tannins and crisp acidity, offering plenty of crunch on the palate and a vivid, flinty tension at its core, leading to a long, mineral finish.

Sappy fruit aromas of redcurrant, vine tomato, blackberry and rosehip are joined by a whiff of dried herbs and anise. This is openly accessible with a broadly concentrated palate and excellent density of flavour, ranging from dried herb to earthy, warm spice and generous small berry fruit. It finishes with generosity and even a hint of wildness with ripe, mouth-coating, cocoa-like tannins and tangy acidity providing balance and length. This approachable yet elegant pinot noir can be enjoyed now or over the coming decade as it gets smoother and more savoury

A seductive and complex bouquet with site at the core of the scents leading with a softness and roundness from clay and clone, to stone and dried flowers, then red berry fruits of the variety from sweet and sour cherry then red apple skin and dried herb. Fine and complex and as the wine opens out in glass, the refined and complex voices become louder and more in focus. A dry wine touches the palate with a rush of fine chalky tannins and acidity then flavours of fresh and sour raspberry and cherry fruits, some red apple skin, fine dried herb and mineral-earth qualities reflecting site and vintage. Delightful and perfumed, engaging and delicious, taut and youthful with a salivating palate squeeze. A wine that will become even better given the time to integrate and develop more. Best drinking from 2032 through 2040+.

Sleek, concentrated and luxurious in its pinosity. Refreshing, fine-grained tannins shape things well. Dark cherry, sarsaparilla, tart, red plums, redcurrants and a gentle dusting of exotic, sweet spice. A touch of ferrous savouriness in the mix, plus some slate-like minerality. Compact and elegant overall. Supreme balance and finesse.