Clear ruby red.
Complex smoky, cedarwood, red fruit and dried herbs.
Raspberry and black currant flavours with savoury and earthy tones. This wine has a solid mid-palate and lingering chocolate finish. An elegant wine, well balanced with silky tannins and good acidity.
Low cropping estate grown grapes for this wine were hand-harvested in March 2018 from Aurum’s Te Wairere vineyard in the Lowburn area of Central Otago, New Zealand.
A consistently warm-season drove a very early ripening of the grapes.
Windblown sands and silts.
18-year-old vines
VSP (Vertical shoot positioning)
Grapes for this Pinot Noir were selected by the winemakers and fermented in open-top fermenters, hand plunged and with wild yeasts. The wine was matured for 12 months in French oak barrels with 20% new oak.
Will reward by cellaring 4-8 years.
Mathilde is the name of the firstborn daughter of winemakers, Brook and Lucie Lawrence.
Bottled: September 2019
Alcohol: 14 %
Closure: Screwcap
