2019 Te Mata, Alma Pinot Noir, 6x750ml
2019 Te Mata, Alma Pinot Noir, 6x750ml
The second ever vintage of Te Mata’s flagship pinot noir follows last year’s inaugural 2018 vintage, which was released to huge acclaim. Balanced by a lingering acidity it has poise and grace.
The second ever vintage of Te Mata’s flagship pinot noir follows last year’s inaugural 2018 vintage, which was released to huge acclaim. Balanced by a lingering acidity it has poise and grace.
Availability: 4 weeks
Case size: 6 / Bottle size: 750ml
Duty Status
From £170.00
Critics Score: 96
Publication: Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Expressing precision and poise, the wine shows… delectably juicy fruit flavours together with soothing mouthfeel and savoury undertones backed by fine tannins, leading to a gorgeously long seductive finish
2019 Te Mata, Alma Pinot Noir, 6x750ml
ORIGIN
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.
VINEYARDS
Separate parcels of fully ripened pinot noir grapes were hand-harvested from Te Mata
Estate’s Woodthorpe Vineyards between 7 and 18 March 2019.
WINEMAKING
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.
TASTING NOTE
Saturated, dark crimson, Alma Pinot Noir ’19 has an enticing nose of pomegranate,
raspberry and black cherry syrup. Mineral and savoury notes – orange peel, peppercorns
and sage – all glide across a serene surface of dark, fine tannin and lush ripe fruit.
Alma Pinot Noir ’19 is structural. This is a wine of scope and horizons. Its depths are
balanced by a lingering fruit acid tension that gives the wine a balletic level of poise,
energy and grace.
CELLARING POTENTIAL
Alma Pinot Noir ’19 is closed with a ‘Diam’ cork, which eliminates any possibility of
cork taint, allowing continued evolution in bottle for six years from harvest.
ORIGIN
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.
VINEYARDS
Separate parcels of fully ripened pinot noir grapes were hand-harvested from Te Mata
Estate’s Woodthorpe Vineyards between 7 and 18 March 2019.
WINEMAKING
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.
TASTING NOTE
Saturated, dark crimson, Alma Pinot Noir ’19 has an enticing nose of pomegranate,
raspberry and black cherry syrup. Mineral and savoury notes – orange peel, peppercorns
and sage – all glide across a serene surface of dark, fine tannin and lush ripe fruit.
Alma Pinot Noir ’19 is structural. This is a wine of scope and horizons. Its depths are
balanced by a lingering fruit acid tension that gives the wine a balletic level of poise,
energy and grace.
CELLARING POTENTIAL
Alma Pinot Noir ’19 is closed with a ‘Diam’ cork, which eliminates any possibility of
cork taint, allowing continued evolution in bottle for six years from harvest.
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