2023 Anthem Vineyard Pinot Noir Blank Canvas Wine Central Otago NZ

Anthem Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023

$75.00 NZD

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Vineyard: Anthem Vineyard
Subregion: Gibbston Valley
Region: Central Otago
Vintage: 2023
Soil Type: Schist derived, windblown alluvial loess
Viticulture: Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand Certified (SWNZ)
Manager: Jase Thomson

Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand Certified (SWNZ)

Growing up amid Central Otago’s dramatic slopes, we always imagined a Pinot Noir that spoke with that region’s cool-climate clarity; Anthem Vineyard in Gibbston delivers exactly that. This traditionally cooler subregion delivers a Pinot of luminous clarity: bright morello cherry and wild strawberry sit at the core, lifted by violet perfume and a thread of spicy red berry; beneath this sits a sappy, umami savouriness that adds drive and complexity. Wild fermentation, whole-cluster inclusion and a low-toast oak regime gives elegance, complexity and structure to the wine. It’s everything we adore about Pinot Noir - perfume, savoury complexity and boundless energy and freshness.

Our approach is site-first: pristine fruit, gentle handling and minimal intervention showcases Anthem Vineyard’s precise cool‑climate perfume and savoury spine.

Hand-picked into small trays and brought overnight to Marlborough, this small parcel was vinified with 40% whole clusters tipped into an open-top fermenter and the remainder crushed over the top. A six-day cold soak was followed by natural fermentation and daily hand-plunging. Once dry, the wine was drained and pressed to French oak barriques (35% new) where the wine matured for 11 months and completed natural malolactic conversion.

A further four months on light lees in small tank allowed texture and integration to develop, with the wine gently settling before being bottled unfiltered the winter after harvest to retain purity, energy and vineyard definition.

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Reviews

5 STARS

"Enticingly perfumed, the 2023 vintage (*****) is a single-vineyard red, hand-picked at Gibbston from 23-year-old vines, barrel-aged, and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Full, bright ruby, it is intensely varietal, with a lovely array of cherry, spice, herb and nut flavours, woven with fresh acidity, supple tannins and a savoury, complex, lingering finish. A delicious, very harmonious and silky-textured wine, it's already drinking well, but ageworthy too.'"

- MICHAEL COOPER

95 POINTS

"Mellow, complex pinot noir with layers of floral/violet, dried herb and savoury flavours that linger long after the wine has been swallowed. Delicious wine that achieves a perfect balance of subtle sweetness and mellow tannins."

- BOB CAMPBELL MW

94 POINTS

"A fine wine with velvet tannins and a backbone of acidity, a delicious core of ripened berry fruit flavours, plum and blackcurrant, sweet red cherry and layers of wood spice and a fine smoky wood quality. A wine that also has an earth-smoke quality with suggestions of clay and fine stone then dried herb and a savoury bay leaf quality. Delicious, fresh, balanced and well made. A wine that will continue to develop eccentricities and settle into its style. Best drinking from late 2026 through 2032.’"

- CAMERON DOUGLAS MS

93 POINTS

"Bright ruby. Open knit and expressive flavours of boysenberry ice-cream with the generously ripe coulis of fruit wrapped in fragrant wild thyme, spicy clove and sweet cinnamon oak. The mid-weight flavours have a beguiling creamy sweetness which gives way to chewy, fine-grained tannins and long, tangy acidity. A very accessible and crowd-pleasing style which is hard to resist right now but which will move past its flamboyant stage with time in bottle, allowing more savoury and spicy complexity to emerge."