Kumeu River, Ray's Road Pinot Noir, 2020
Kumeu River is famous for benchmark New Zealand Chardonnay, but the Brajkovich family had bigger ideas when they bought the Ray's Road vineyard in Hawke's Bay outright in 2017. This is their only single-vineyard Pinot Noir, off a limestone-rich site originally planted as a joint venture that included a Sancerre grower. The result is bright and fragrant, with ripe cherry, a dry-leaf savory edge, and a distinctive limestone cut running underneath. It's a fresher, more detailed style of Pinot than the New Zealand stereotype. Drinking well now. Lovely with food or on its own.
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Kumeu River is famous for benchmark New Zealand Chardonnay, but the Brajkovich family had bigger ideas when they bought the Ray's Road vineyard in Hawke's Bay outright in 2017. This is their only single-vineyard Pinot Noir, off a limestone-rich site originally planted as a joint venture that included a Sancerre grower. The result is bright and fragrant, with ripe cherry, a dry-leaf savory edge, and a distinctive limestone cut running underneath. It's a fresher, more detailed style of Pinot than the New Zealand stereotype. Drinking well now. Lovely with food or on its own.
