Cherry
Dark berries
Stone fruit
Warm spice

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Ata Rangi Crimson P/Noir

Name: Ata Rangi Crimson P/Noir 750ml
SKU: 105228
Price: 37.99 NZD
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Wine · New Zealand · 750ml · 13%

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What it tastes like

Dark cherry · spice · silky finish

Crimson has an enticing nose of dark cherry blended with new season raspberry and wild mulberries. Light touches of smoky clove and exotic spice enhance the rich flavours of sweet red plum and black cherry that burst onto the palate. Very fine, supple tannins carry evenly right to the finish. This wine is utterly charming with an underlying structure that has real weight and power.

Cherry
Dark berries
Stone fruit
Warm spice

Where it is from

Wine
Style: New Zealand
Origin: 750ml
Size: 13% ABV
Alcohol: 0.8 per bottle
Standard drinks

The story of Ata Rangi Crimson P/Noir

Crimson is Ata Rangi's younger vine Pinot Noir, and the name comes from the red flowers of the pōhutukawa and rātā. Over twenty years ago the winery named it in support of Project Crimson, the trust set up in 1990 to restore and protect those native trees. Clive Paton, who founded Ata Rangi in 1980, has planted more than 75,000 trees on the family's Bush Block.

The fruit is selected from younger parcels across the estate's Martinborough Terrace vineyards, on vines between five and twenty years old. The winemaking follows the same hands-off approach as the signature Pinot Noir, with native yeasts and a share of whole bunches. The wine spends twelve months in French oak barriques, around a fifth of them new each year.

The result is fresh and perfumed, with rose, bergamot tea and ginger, a savoury note of roast lamb and mint, and fine, supple tannins. French harvest interns once called it glou-glou, their word for a wine so easy to drink that the bottle is empty before you notice. A slightly cool serve suits it, alongside roast lamb, grilled sausages or a margherita pizza.