Escarpment fashions Pinot Noir wines from the Martinborough district in New Zealand.

Escarpment's Artisan Noir explores a different approach to Martinborough Pinot Noir. Unrestricted by tradition, the Escarpment team make this wine with a focus on minimal intervention, low sulphur additions, and without filtration. The resulting wine is fruit-driven with savoury and spicy notes.

Part of their ethos is to explore boundaries and create wines of interest and complexity.

The Noir label brings together 35 years of wine making experience, creating a soft, bright, fruit forward wine which can be enjoyed immediately or will cellar successfully for a number of years.

The grapes are 100% grown in Martinborough, on the alluvial gravel terrace - hand harvested fruit and open top fermented.

After a total vat time of 16 days the wine was pressed off and barrel aged for 11 months.

Bottled without filtration.

Structure and texture sit perfectly with ripe fruit flavours and gentle tannins that combine with intriguing complexity.

Technical Details:

Alc: 13.5%
Acid: 4.9g/l
pH: 3.54
Residual sugar: <1.0g/l
Total dry extract: 28.7g/L