Founders' Cellar Central Otago Pinot Noir 2020

DescriptionDetails

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.

For consumption

12-15°C / 54-59 F

Cellaring potential

Drinking now, but would age 5-10 years

Bottling

After 12 months of barrel-ageing in French oak barriques, of which 30% were new, the wine was bottled in June 2021.

Alcohol percentage

13.82

Central 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.