2013 TWR Pinot Noir

TWR

New Zealand / Marlborough / TWR

All winemakers go a bit nuts about Pinot Noir because it is challenging to grow and make and very unforgiving of mistakes. Anna and Jason Flowerday love the flavour spectrum of Marlborough Pinot Noir from red fruits to black and from complex savoury notes to spice and back again. It has an ability to give vibrant fruit on the palate combined with ripe supple, silky tannins and great structure and length. This wine is a blend of eight different clones and as the vines mature we are seeing an increasing depth and complexity in the resultant wines.

Nick Stock

jamessuckling.com

94 points

This is a super attractive pinot noir and 2013 looks to be a terrific vintage for Te Whare Ra. Plenty of bright perfume notes, musk and spices, some leafy bracken and dark cherries, too. The palate has a very supple style to it, nicely polished tannins deliver bright cherry and red plum flavors, and there's brilliant balance and energy. Drink in 2017.

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About TWR

Te Whare Ra (TWR) is a small vineyard and winery located in the Marlborough sub-region of Renwick. The 11Ha vineyard was first planted in 1979 and since 2003 has been owned by winemakers Anna and Jason Flowerday. Yields are kept low, the vineyard is managed with a combination of organic and biodynamic practices and all the fruit is handpicked and hand-sorted.  The wines are made with minimal intervention in a small winery which has been specifically set up for small-batch winemaking.  The aromatic wines have carved out a reputation for TWR as a member of New Zealand’s elite, while the improbably good Syrah and Pinot Noir are opening people’s eyes to Marlborough’s potential for red wines of distinction.
Biodynamic producer, certified organic
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About

Anna Flowerday hails from McLaren Vale and kicked off her career there amid a thoroughly talented pack of young winemakers in the mid-1990s. She worked for Hardys for seven years all up, culminating in an aromatically formative stint at Leasingham in Clare Valley. It was during her time at Hardys that she met and fell in love with Jason Flowerday, a third-generation viticulturalist from Marlborough. Eventually they struck out together and in 2003 bought Te Whare Ra, home to one of the oldest vineyards in Marlborough, originally planted in 1979. Together they manage the estate with a combination of organic and biodynamic practices and have cemented this region's reputation not only as an impeccable source of aromatic whites but also as a force to be reckoned with for both Pinot Noir and Syrah.