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Founders' Cellar Central Otago Pinot Noir 2020
The 2020 Founders’ Cellar Central Otago Pinot Noir is open and expressive, carrying notes of boysenberry, violets, and anaerobic-fermented coffee beans. The palate is similarly open and appealing, with soft damson plum and hedgerow fruit framed by a touch of toastiness, gentle tannins and a bright acidity akin to biting into fridge-cold blueberries.
Variety
Pinot Noir Alcohol level
13.82% Serve at
12-15°C / 54-59 FCentral Otago
Vineyards
Founders’ Cellar Central Otago Pinot Noir is created from the fruit of two contrasting vineyards: Northburn and Calvert.
Northburn sits on the steep, hilly east bank of Lake Dunstan. The vines here spread across terraces of unforgiving, rocky, glacial soils. Helped by the large diurnal shifts of warm days and cool nights, these soils produce fruit of great structure and intensity. Calvert, on Felton Road in Bannockburn, sits in the silty, loamy soils and rolling terrain of an ancient lakebed. Calvert produces opulent, elegant and sweetly-scented fruit.
Northburn sits on the steep, hilly east bank of Lake Dunstan. The vines here spread across terraces of unforgiving, rocky, glacial soils. Helped by the large diurnal shifts of warm days and cool nights, these soils produce fruit of great structure and intensity. Calvert, on Felton Road in Bannockburn, sits in the silty, loamy soils and rolling terrain of an ancient lakebed. Calvert produces opulent, elegant and sweetly-scented fruit.
