RIPPON
2019 'Rippon' Mature Vine Pinot Noir
| Grapes | Pinot Noir |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | New Zealand, South Island |
| Other | Bio-dynamic |
| ABV | 13.5% |
Firm and tight licorice, graphite, slate and light dried strawberry. Goes to iron. Flowers. Medium body. Creamy and fine tannins with a rather dusty finish. Fresh acidity and long and linear finish. Structured. From biodynamically grown grapes. Better after 2024, but already beautiful. Drinking range: 2024 - Rating: 98 James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com (Dec 2022)
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The 2019 Rippon Mature Vine Pinot Noir is nuanced and spicy, welcoming and detailed. This is quite different from the 2020 tasted beside it, and the acidity has a succulent blood orange tang (no additions—Nick says, "Have you seen the glacier?"). This is an excellent wine here, supple, slinky, red fruited and fresh. I love the gently trippy tannins. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under Diam. Drinking range: 2023 - 2030 Rating: 93 Erin Larkin, www.RobertParker.com (Dec 2023)
Full bottle (not screwcapped) 1,293 g. Hand-picked from mature, biodynamically grown vines in Lake Wanaka on the western board of Roy’s Bay. Rippon’s north-facing escarpment forms the meeting point of terminal moraines and coarse gravels, all based in schist, on which some of the region’s earliest vines were planted. Spontaneous fermentation and cellared in barrel for two winters before being run off directly into bottle without fining or filtration. Cool service temperature and decanting are recommended. Very sophisticated, complex nose with both fruit and undergrowth tones. Wow! Some spice and a perfect balance between fruit and acidity. Great presence and freshness without being remotely skinny. Really very glorious now, although there is a little undercurrent of almost imperceptible tannin. Drinking range: 2022 - 2029 Rating: 17.5 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jul 2023)
The 2019 Pinot Noir Mature Vine is textural, supple and fine with violets and red cherry, lightly spiced with nutmeg-like flavors on the calm finish. Fine, tranquil with detailed powdery tannins that coat the mouth in layers. Starting to blossom in bottle. Drinking range: 2023 - 2033 Rating: 92 Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous.com (Apr 2023)
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Nick Mills returned home after several years away, working with the likes of Alain and Sophie Meunier at Domaine JJ Confuron, and Pascal Marchand (late of Domaine Comte Armand and then at Domaine de la Vougeraie). This experience with some of the leading players in Burgundy fired him up with enthusiasm, and we are already seeing the fruits of his experience in the changes in viticulture (to bio-dynamism) and the increased depth of mineral complexity in the wines.
Nick Mills on Biodynamics: 'Granted custodianship over this very special piece of land, the family's principle goal is to create vins de terroir, wines that are an accurate reflection of their surroundings. It is the micro-life in our soils which, in their ability to metabolise minerals into a form that vines can assimilate, are the link in between plants and the earth. This simple biology is the essential framework in producing a wine which is true to its soil and site. With this understanding comes an absolute respect for the land and life therein and it is for this reason that Rippon is run biodynamically.
Decisions made in the vineyard and winery first consider the effect the outcome may have on the micro-flora of the soils, vines & wines. Rippon does not use herbicides, fungicides, pesticides or soluble nitrogenous fertilisers on the property. All the property's organic waste matter is recycled to make around 40 tonnes of fungal dominant compost every year. This is spread back over the land during the first descending moon after harvest as an inoculation of beneficial micro-flora for the whole property...and thus starts a diverse and vital web of life on which to live and produce.
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