Mahi Pinot Noir 2022

Mahi, meaning ‘our work, our craft’, began in 2001, fulfilling a dream for Brian and Nicola Bicknell. With a strong focus on single-vineyard wines from Marlborough, the idea behind Mahi is to respect and promote the individuality of those vineyards, and this focus of recognising and celebrating the diversity still continues. Since their first vintage they have built together a group of growers who are committed to their land and to the wines that come from it.

All of the vines reflect their ‘place’, their soils and aspects. All have been low cropped, hand-picked and fermented in the winery with the indigenous yeasts that arrive on the grapes. This is wine making with as little intervention as possible, so they truly reflect their sense of ‘place’ and the inspiration behind Mahi.

Grapes were predominantly destemmed before going to small vats for cold soaking prior to fermentation. About 20% were fermented with stems or whole-bunch solely with indigenous yeasts offering a wide variety of flavours. During fermentation the skins and juice were hand-plunged on average two times per day. When finished the wine was taken straight to French barriques where it sat for 15 months. The wine was then gently racked, blended, and bottled unfiltered and unfined.