Burn Cottage Moonlight Race Pinot Noir 2022
New Zealand Pinot Noir
SKU: ADV-burnCOT-moonPN
Burn Cottage Moonlight Race Pinot Noir 2022
New Zealand Pinot Noir
SKU: ADV-burnCOT-moonPN
Regular price
$4699
$46.99
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Moonlight Race Pinot Noir 2022 94WA / 91VM
Burn Cottage
Central Otago, NZ
Burn Cottage
Central Otago, NZ
Whole cluster percentage: 5%
New oak percentage: 20%
Finished wine detail: pH 3.63 TA 4.8 g/L Alc 13.5%
Vineyard: Moonlight Race Pinot Noir is created by combining two unique parcels of Pinot Noir, one from the Burn Cottage Vineyard in Lowburn and the second coming off the Burn Cottage Sauvage Vineyard in Bannockburn, capturing the essence of Central Otago Pinot Noir. Approachable now, there is cellaring potential of 7-8 years.
95 pts Wine Spectator
#84 Wine of the Year Top 100
#84 Wine of the Year Top 100
Generous, juicy and concentrated, offering maraschino cherry, blackberry and white pepper notes, with pomegranate and oud hints, plus touches of caramelized brown sugar and allspice. The tannins are equally juicy, dense and plush, with a long, wonderfully expressive finish. Drink now through 2036. 2,500 cases made, 350 cases imported. —MW
94 Pts Wine Advocate
The 2022 Moonlight Race Pinot Noir is supple and spicy, with pink peppercorn, cherry blossom, red apple skins, a hint of blond tobacco and white pepper. The wine is light in the glass (but vibrant) and the tannins suit it—they are totally fresh and fine—finely milled and like poudre. Superb, silky, totally satisfying and enlivening. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Here are some technical numbers for you. Vineyard percentage is 56% Burn Cottage Vineyard, 22% from the Sauvage Vineyard and 22% from Luna Vineyard. Seven percent whole bunch was in the ferment with 17 days on skins and oak included 22% new French oak. The wine’s pH is 3.73, with a total acidity of five grams per liter. - Erin Larkin, December 2023
91 pts Vinous
If you're looking for a pure and unadulterated Central Otago Pinot that shows class but won't break the bank, you'll find it in the 2022 Moonlight Race. It's suave and comfortable in itself. This is a chilled out, no worries Kiwi Pinot with plenty of class. Supple, concentrated and savory with fine-grained cocoa-like tannins. It is all oh-so-Central black cherries with orange peel, subtle clove and garrigue. It's a wine you can happily drink now but has the frame and fruit content to see out the decade. Being impatient, I will struggle to wait that long. - By Rebecca Gibb MW on May 2024
