SOHO PINOT NOIR 2010

wine with rapture

Award winning winemaker David Clouston has created a Marlborough wine that serves up a core of spicy black cherry and opulent red summer fruits. Dark chocolate with a hit of well integrated French oak adds intrigue. The palate is smooth textured with velvety tannins and a long finish... this wine should be wrapped in tobacco leaf. Unlock your inhibitions...

Tasting Notes

Variety: 100% Pinot Noir
Region: Marlborough: Soho’s Yarrum Vineyard – Brancott Valley
Winemaker: Dave Clouston
Bottling Date: 22 March 2011
Cellaring: 1-10 years
Tech Analysis: Alcohol: 14%
Residual Sugar: > 2 gms/L t.a: 5.9g/l pH: 3.74
Oak Barrels: French Barrels (33% new) 11 months ageing
Packaging: 12 x 750ml
Winemaker's Notes: A full bodied, rich style of Pinot Noir with red and black cherry notes supported by spicy oak and a hint of star anise. A silken wine that is generous and will age gracefully in the years to come.

Reviews

GOLD - Best in Class

Bright crimson red with a inviting nose of red summer fruits, cherries & raspberries. Hints of smoke and dark chocolate. This wine has a nice build in the mouth, great balance and fine structure. A long characterful finish completes a great drink.

International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC)
Top 10

There was so much discussion around our top-rating 2010. Savoury, spicy, red beetroot aromas, showing the influence of whole bunch fermentation, usher in a mouthful of red and dark fruit charm.

Cuisine 2011
93 points

A seductive Pinot showing charm and elegance, as well as loads of attractive flavours - dark cherry, plum, game, mushroom and nicely infused cedary oak. The palate is succulent and silky smooth with lovely mid palate weight and impressively long finish backed by well polished tannins. Already delightful drinking, this will develop greater complexity with time. At its best: now to 2016.

Sam Kim - Wine Orbit