2023 Hawkshead Central Otago Pinot Noir
Regular price $52.00
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We are proud to celebrate the diversity of the Central Otago terroir with our HAWKSHEAD 2023 Pinot Noir. As always at HAWKSHEAD, we harvested selected parcels of sustainable fruit to create an attractive, vibrant and approachable, medium-bodied Pinot Noir with complex flavours and elegance.
The first sensory impression reveals aromas of faint floral suggestions, sweet plum, a melange of dark berry fruits and notes of sweet spice.
Those sensuous notions carry seamlessly through on to the palate and turn into succulent mouth-filling fruit flavours. The purity of fruit shines through and is elevated by fine grained tannins and bright acidity which sustain a delicious tension and elegance.
Take a moment to explore and savour our wine and with it the challenging and inspirational growing environment.
You will find 'an honest' expression of grape the variety Pinot Noir and ‘the land’ Central Otago will unravel.
The 2023 HAWKSHEAD Pinot Noir is immensely enjoyable now but will also evolve over the next 6 to 8 years.
Reviews
Michael Cooper, New Zealand Wines
Michael Cooper’s Buyers Guide
Excellent quality, verging on outstanding
This very age worthy red was hand-picked and matured in French oak barriques. (5*) Deep, bright ruby, it is full-bodied, savoury, generous and well-structured, with concentrated cherry, plum, spice and nut flavours, showing excellent ripeness and complexity, and a lengthy finish. Best drinking mid-2026+.
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
94/ 100 Outstanding quality showing varietal purity and exemplifying regional type.
Offering excellent fruit purity with elegant complexity, the wine shows sweet plum, rich floral, subtle spice and almond notes on the nose. The palate delivers succulent fruit flavours with finely flowing mouthfeel, it's wonderfully framed by polished tannins. Beautifully poised and elegant with a persistent finish. At its best: now to 2033.