Peregrine Pinot Noir 2019

Family-owned, organic winery Peregrine has been farming its Central Otago vineyards and producing wines that embody the region’s landscape and terroir for the last 25 years. Nestled among rugged mountains and pristine rivers, Peregrine produces a range of award winning, premium wines, including Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Riesling, and Sauvignon Blanc.
Taking a ‘hands on’ approach to winemaking since 1998, the McLachlan family share a passion for the land and a vision about how they wanted to manage it. And so Peregrine began their organic journey in 2009, culminating in the Biogro organic certification for the entire Peregrine range in the 2017 vintage.

The result are wines made from exceptional organic fruit, and which tell the story faithfully of Central Otago’s unique climate and environment.

Hand-harvested grapes came from three sub-regions: Bendigo (50%), Pisa (42%), Gibbston (8%), each contributing unique characteristics to the blend. A combination of whole bunch and destemmed fruit fermented using both wild and selected yeast strains, hand plunged in open-top fermenters, and matured for 10 months in French oak barrels, with approximately 35% new oak, to integrate flavours and add subtle oak nuances.