Neudorf Vineyards

"One of the best New Zealand Pinot Noirs."

Max Allen

2023

Home Block Moutere Pinot Noir

Home Block Moutere Pinot Noir

Thoughtful / Cocoa / Earthy

Regular price $75.00 NZD
Regular price Sale price $75.00 NZD
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Also available in magnum

Organically Certified BioGro 56438 | Moutere Clay Gravels | Single Vineyard | Low Cropping | Hand Harvested | Wild Ferment | Natural Spring Malo | Barrel Matured | Unfined | Unfiltered | Vegan | Lightweight Glass Bottle | Solar Powered Winery

Match With

Match with charcoal-seared duck breast, wild mushrooms and a lick of blackcurrant jus. Or better yet, a slow-cooked modern hāngī—where earth, smoke and fire do the talking.

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Wine Details

Nelson lends itself to sophisticated, savoury Pinot Noir.
Pinot for cool nights and roaring fires, for leather couches and interesting conversation.

Juicy, delicious and deeply typical of our Home Block, the 2023 vintage hums with quiet confidence.

A visceral note runs through the wine, layered with warm smoke and manuka forest. Black plum, wild cherry and dried thyme emerge, wrapped in a lingering savoury perfume.

It’s dark, smouldering and long. A Pinot that feels subterranean—textural, mineral, and seductive in its restraint.

Vineyard

Site: Home Block - Upper Moutere, Nelson

Aspect: 60m Elveation, North Facing

Soil Type: Moutere Clay Gravels

Soil Composition: Clay Loam, with small pebbles in upper horizon.

Vineyard Established: 1978

Farming: Dry Farmed, Organic (Biogro: #5438)

Variety: 100% Pinot Noir

Clonal Selection: 777, 5, 667, 115

Hand Harvested: 100%

Seasonal Detail: A dry start to the season followed by a wetter than normal November. A welcome change to early summer and autumn where we experienced drier and warmer months (December – April). Minor rain events ensured canopies stayed “refreshed” before a trouble-free harvest period. A generous season producing wines of volume and precision

Winemaking

Harvest: 24th - 29th March 2023

Processing: Fruit chilled, sorted and destemmed.

Fermentation: 100% Wild Yeast

Fermentation Vessel: 100% open top fermentation – peak temperature of 32 C

Cap Management: Hand plunge (pigeage) 2 times daily

Oak Management: 100% French Oak - 20% new

Maturation: 10 months in oak then racked and blended.

Malolactic: 100% natural spring malo

Fining: None Filtration: None Vegan: Yes

Bottling Analysis: 13.5% Alc, 3.77 pH, 5.3 g/L TA, Dry

Full Bottle Weight: 1,165 g

Nelson lends itself to sophisticated, savoury Pinot Noir.
Pinot for cool nights and roaring fires, for leather couches and interesting conversation.

Juicy, delicious and deeply typical of our Home Block, the 2023 vintage hums with quiet confidence.

A visceral note runs through the wine, layered with warm smoke and manuka forest. Black plum, wild cherry and dried thyme emerge, wrapped in a lingering savoury perfume.

It’s dark, smouldering and long. A Pinot that feels subterranean—textural, mineral, and seductive in its restraint.

Site: Home Block - Upper Moutere, Nelson

Aspect: 60m Elveation, North Facing

Soil Type: Moutere Clay Gravels

Soil Composition: Clay Loam, with small pebbles in upper horizon.

Vineyard Established: 1978

Farming: Dry Farmed, Organic (Biogro: #5438)

Variety: 100% Pinot Noir

Clonal Selection: 777, 5, 667, 115

Hand Harvested: 100%

Seasonal Detail: A dry start to the season followed by a wetter than normal November. A welcome change to early summer and autumn where we experienced drier and warmer months (December – April). Minor rain events ensured canopies stayed “refreshed” before a trouble-free harvest period. A generous season producing wines of volume and precision

Harvest: 24th - 29th March 2023

Processing: Fruit chilled, sorted and destemmed.

Fermentation: 100% Wild Yeast

Fermentation Vessel: 100% open top fermentation – peak temperature of 32 C

Cap Management: Hand plunge (pigeage) 2 times daily

Oak Management: 100% French Oak - 20% new

Maturation: 10 months in oak then racked and blended.

Malolactic: 100% natural spring malo

Fining: None Filtration: None Vegan: Yes

Bottling Analysis: 13.5% Alc, 3.77 pH, 5.3 g/L TA, Dry

Full Bottle Weight: 1,165 g

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"A rather fantastic bouquet of complexity and intrigue, varietal intensity and true sense of site and mature vines. ."

Cameron Douglas MS

Home Block Moutere Pinot Noir

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