Villa Maria Single Vineyard Southern Clays Pinot Noir

They’re New Zealand’s most awarded and trusted winery so you can rest assure anything from Villa’s “Single Vineyard” range is pretty slick stuff. So it’s absolutely no surprise to see their 2017 Southern Clays Marlborough Pinot pick up the gongs…

Gold medal (NZ Int’l Wine Show 2018)

95/100 & Top Rank (Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review)
“Rich, silken-textured, elegant pinot noir with plum, dark cherry, berry, coffee, mocha, violet and spicy oak flavours. A complex and accessible wine, with subtle power evidenced by a lengthy finish. Delicious wine.”

5 Stars, 95/100 (Sam Kim)
“It’s wonderfully weighted and richly textured, exhibiting multi-layered mouthfeel backed by fine polished tannins, making it sensually appealing and highly enjoyable. At its best: now to 2027”

4 1/2 Stars (Michael Cooper)
“A very graceful, fragrant and supple red, it is full-bodied, with vibrant, cherryish, plummy, spicy flavours, showing good complexity, fresh acidity, and a smooth finish. Best drinking 2021+.”

Produced from exclusive, small parcels of land and in this case a site covered in clay soil from the Ben Morven foothills in Marlborough’s Southern Valleys. They produce some of NZ’s very finest Pinots in this neck of the woods and in the words of the winemaker “It’s a vineyard that delivers time and again“.