Rapaura Springs Reserve Pinot Noir 2025

Rapaura Springs Reserve Pinot Noir is built from fruit grown on carefully selected, warmer inland vineyard sites across Marlborough's Southern Valleys and Ward subregions. Aromas of cherry and subtle spice lead into a rich, full palate of ripe red berries and spicy oak, with silky tannins carrying through to an elegant, lingering finish. The fruit was cold-soaked for around five days before fermentation in small open-top tanks using a mix of wild and selected yeasts, plunged twice daily, then pressed off the skins and aged in oak that includes 20% new wood. A generous, food-friendly style with real depth for the price point.

What the winery says:

The fruit for the Reserve Pinot Noir is drawn from a selection of premium vineyard sites across Marlborough's Southern Valleys and Ward subregions, chosen for the concentration and structure they bring to the blend. After harvest, the fruit is cold-soaked for around five days to extract flavour, tannin and colour, then fermented in small open-top tanks using a mix of wild and selected yeasts, with each ferment plunged twice a day. The wine macerates on skins for five days before a gentle pressing, then undergoes malolactic fermentation while ageing in oak, 20% of it new.