Folium Vineyard Marlborough Pinot Noir 2024

Folium Vineyard Marlborough Pinot Noir 2024Dark ruby red colour with some depth, and a little lighter on the rim with slight purple hues. The nose is well concentrated and densely packed with aromas of dark raspberry and red berry fruits entwined with dark herbs, unfolding some earthy detail. Medium full bodied, the flavours of dark red berry fruit, raspberries and dark herbs are somewhat restrained, with the unfolding of the mineral detail. Combining Eons of French viticultural knowledge with

Dark ruby-red colour with some depth, and a little lighter on the rim with slight purple hues. The nose is well-concentrated and densely packed with aromas of dark raspberry and red berry fruits entwined with dark herbs, unfolding some earthy detail. Medium-full bodied, the flavours of dark-red berry fruit, raspberries and dark herbs are somewhat restrained, with the unfolding of the mineral detail.

Combining Eons of French viticultural knowledge with Japanese perfection, the ever-humble Takaki Okada is producing wines of sheer class and elegance.

The Pinot Noir is fermented in open top fermenters with indigenous yeast, and it is pumped over for 2-3 minutes a day with no plunging, which is just enough to get gentle extraction. There’s no cold soak but the grapes are picked in the early morning so fermentation takes a while to get going. The pinot is pressed to French oak, 15% new. Generally they show the bright red fruit found in many Pinot Noirs from Marlborough but with the added complexity of savoury, earthy notes and a truly fine textural element.