2019 Te Mata Alma Pinot Noir
30,90 €
29 in stock
Te Mata’s acclaimed Pinot Noir
The Te Mata Alma Pinot Noir celebrates Dr. James Thomson, a hero of the Battle of Alma in 1854 during the Crimean War and ancestor of the Buck family of Te Mata Estate. Knowing that the defeated enemy soldiers had already contracted cholera, Dr. Thomson volunteered to treat their wounds, saving the lives of more than four hundred soldiers, sacrificing his own in the process. The medal awarded to him for this selfless act of bravery appears on the label of Alma Pinot Noir. The individual batches of grapes were each destemmed and received a traditional, warm mash fermentation. The resulting musts underwent prolonged maceration on the shells before being pressed. The individual wines were then matured for 11 months in a mix of new and used French oak barrels.
And this is how the Alma Pinot Noir by Te Mata tastes
The Te Mata Alma Pinot Noir has a tantalizing nose of pomegranate, raspberry and black cherry syrup. Mineral and spicy notes of orange peel, peppercorns and sage glide over a velvety surface of dark, fine tannin and lush, ripe fruit. This red wine is very well structured and balanced. Its depth is balanced by a persistent fruit acid tension, which gives the wine a dancing lightness, energy and grace.
2019 Te Mata Alma Pinot Noir
And that goes well with Te Mata Alma Pinot Noir
The Te Mata Alma Pinot Noir goes wonderfully with game and wild fowl. Try it with roast duck or goose with napkin dumplings and blue cabbage.
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| Distributor | wine in motion GmbH, Kellerweg 4, 84494 Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Deutschland |
"Raspberry and dried roses, a bit of sweet manure or kelp or something a bit on the savoury side, cinnamon and vanilla. Mediumbodied, a juicy uptake of red fruit and maybe a little baked plum. Tannin is fine-grained and set well inside the wine, a smattering of dried herb too, some ‘mineral’ feel to the acidity, and good length, a little bitter orange as it goes. Has some finesse for a HB Pinot, though veers a little into ‘dry red’ territory. Nice wine all up." -Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, October 15, 2020, 92/100 points
"Very ripe, fresh, fruit centric, varietal, with fresh red berries, some carbonic suggestions, Beaune village thoughts come to mind. Raspberry and red cherry. Dry, tense, focused and youthful on the palate. Great mouthfeel with some savoury elements showing alongside the core of fruit. Specific cooperage releases appealing flavours and textures of oak. Tannins are firm and somewhat chalky. Primary and youthful, lengthy and well made. Best from 2022- late through 2030+." -Cameron Douglas MS, 14 February 2021, 95/100 points
"Expressing precision and poise, the wine shows perfumed aromas of sweet cherry, floral and warm spice with spicy oak nuances. The palate delivers delectably juicy fruit flavours together with soothing mouthfeel and savoury undertones backed by fine tannins, leading to a gorgeously long seductive finish. At its best: 2023 to 2032." -Sam Kim, Wine Orbit NZ, February 2021, 96/100 points
"Sweetly fruited, ripe Pinot Noir offering lots of bright strawberry and raspberry fruit. There’s plenty of juice to get your teeth into in this round style. The fresh finish and pert tannins offer welcome tension to counteract the generous fruit. Subtle spices linger on the mediumlength finish." -Rebecca Gibb MW, Vinous, January 2021, 89/100 points