Pinot Noir 2021

Two Paddocks is a small family wine-producing business that started in 1993 and was founded by actor Sam Neill. Their first vintage was in 1997, and today, Two Paddocks has a footprint in all three of Central Otago’s great valleys, owning vineyards in Gibbston, the Alexandra Basin and the Cromwell Basin, demonstrating their faith and confidence in the future of New Zealand wine. Two Paddocks believe a good Pinot vine is the lowest-yielding vine by definition and design. To produce the optimum ripe fruit, alive with profound fruit flavours balanced with smooth tannins and lively acids, it is regrettably necessary to drop more fruit on the ground as the season progresses than any sane person would consider sensible. The Pinot vine needs more attention by hand than you can credit, and organics are by necessity labour intensive, yet this is the worthwhile investment of Two Paddocks wine.