Te Mata
Estate Pinot Noir, Hawke’s Bay
Sourced exclusively from Te Mata Estate’s Woodthorpe Terraces vineyard located within Hawke's Bay's Dartmoor Valley. This site is home to the winery's only plantings of Pinot Noir and is kept cool from consistent westerly winds. The estate wines represent the best qualities of their variety, vintage, and Hawke’s Bay origin.
Vintage Factsheets
Woodthorpe Terraces is nestled between sheltering hills on elevated, free-draining, north-facing terraces in Hawke’s Bay Dartmoor Valley. The soils, which were left behind as the Tutaekuri River eroded its path through the hills to the sea, are mainly alluvial stone, clay and sandy loam. Vineyard planting began in 1994 and today Woodthorpe Terraces has 75 hectares under vine, planted to number of varietals and is the winery’s sole source for Pinot Noir.
- Region
- Hawke's Bay
- Appellation
- Hawke's Bay
- Varietal Composition
- Pinot Noir
- Aging
- The individual lots were each destemmed and given a traditional warm-plunged fermentation. The resulting wines underwent extended maceration on skins before pressing. The separate wines were then run to a mixture of new and seasoned French oak barriques for 11 months’ maturation.
- Alcohol
- 13%
Bright cherry red color jumps from the glass with raspberry, cherry, plum and strawberry and a lifted floral perfume of lavender and raspberry. Earthy, savoury notes of rosemary and woodsmoke interplay with the bright red fruit and supporting ripe tannins, to carry the wine through to its precise, long finish.
Wine Advocate
92 Points
2021
"The 2021 Estate Vineyards Pinot Noir is sappy, spicy and stalky, with a very pretty core of pink and red fruit in the mouth. There is spice and grace here in equal measure. Nicely done. You get strawberry, red cherry, pink peppercorns, a hint of pomegranate and a splash of caper brine with some dried herbs. Gorgeous wine."
— Erin Larkin, 2023
