Alma Pinot Noir 2025

Te Mata Estate, produktside (hentet 19. okt. 2026): 2025 Te Mata Alma Pinot Noir – område: Hawke's Bay; druer: Pinot Noir; alkohol 14%; 10 måneder på fad, 32% nye franske fade. Enkeltmark ifølge producenten: Woodthorpe Terraces. Producentens noter (engelsk): Separate parcels of fully ripened pinot noir grapes were hand harvested from Te Mata Estate’s Woodthorpe vineyard between 25 and 26 February 2025. 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 all run to a mixture of new and seasoned French oak barriques for 10 months’ maturation, with 32% being new oak. Alma celebrates Dr James Thomson, a hero of the 1854 Battle of the Alma during the Crimean War and forefather to Te Mata Estate’s Buck family. Knowing the vanquished enemy soldiers had already contracted cholera, Dr Thomson volunteered to tend to their wounds, saving the lives of over four hundred, and sacrificing his own in the process. The medal he was awarded for this selfless act of valour appears on the label of Alma Pinot Noir.