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Valli Gibbston Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023

  • Sam Kim
    98 Points
  • Candice Chow
    19.5 Points
  • Erin Larkin
    96 Points
  • Stephen Wong MW
    95 Points
  • James Suckling
    94 Points
Valli Gibbston Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023
  • Sam Kim
    98 Points
  • Candice Chow
    19.5 Points
  • Erin Larkin
    96 Points
  • Stephen Wong MW
    95 Points
  • James Suckling
    94 Points
Valli Gibbston Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023
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Valli Gibbston Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023

SKU: VGPN202310 UCNZ
10-15 Years
$84.99 / bottle
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The estate is based at Gibbston in Central Otago, and this is their flagship Pinot Noir.

The intense perfume flows onto the palate with more baking spices, dried florals, cedar, and dark red fruit.

The extremely small harvest from this site makes the wine a real treasure!

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Valli Gibbston Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023

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Tasting Notes

A deep ruby-red color with moderate transparency, slightly lighter at the edges. The nose is gently full and enticing, offering complex aromas of forest floor, crushed herbs, dried hibiscus, along with delicate spice, cherry, and plum. Medium-bodied and silky on the palate, it begins with scents of cherry and young plum interwoven with crushed herbs, hibiscus, liquorice, forest floor, and spice. The mouthfeel is supple and silky, with fine powdery tannins that delicately veil the palate. Lacy and captivating acidity carries the experience to a very long and exquisite finish. This wine is harmonious, revealing depth and complexity through its delicate aromas, reminiscent of Gibbston. It pairs beautifully with pigeon and truffle and has the potential to age gracefully for the next 12+ years.

- 50 Best Bottles from NZ Wineries - Dr. Jo Burzynska, Viva's NZ Wine Awards 2025, NZ Herald
- Category Winner - 'Best for pinot lovers' - Dr Jo Burzynska, Viva's NZ Wine Awards 2025, NZ Herald

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2023

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Pinot Noir

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Gibbston Valley

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750ml (Bottle)

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10-15 Years

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14.0%

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Critic Scores

98Sam Kim

It’s totally seductive on the nose with stunning fruit purity and perfume, showing ripe cherry, floral, mushroom, thyme, and toasted almond notes, followed by a finely flowing palate that’s wonderfully rounded and plump. Tannins are fine and beautifully infused, making it superbly structured with a sustained, refined finish. At its best: 2026 to 2038.

19.5Candice Chow

Moderately deep crimson, lighter on the rim. The nose is immediately pleasing, with concentrated aromas of cherry, black raspberry, deep floral, undergrowth, and delicate spice. Medium-bodied, with aromas of red cherry and black raspberry entwined with tamarillo, unfolding black pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg spices, undergrowth and hibiscus. Lacy, enticing acidity flows with good energy and precision. Finely woven, powdery tannins coated the mouth in satin and imparted deep fragrances that lingered. An exceptional vintage, this wine is a classic Gibbston Pinot Noir, seductive, harmonious, and profound, one for the long-term cellar. Fermented with 25% whole bunch, aged 11 months in French oak barrels, 27% new oak. 13% alc.

96Erin Larkin

The 2023 Gibbston Vineyard Pinot Noir is fresh, juicy and texturally detailed, with chalky, supple tannins that fill the mouth and saline acidity that courses through the layers of floral, red-berry fruit. There is real drive and elegance here. It’s a superb wine, as all of these Valli Pinots tend to be. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

#1 NZ Pinot Noir, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate

95Stephen Wong MW

Evident whole-bunch spice complexity here with grainy, tight tannins, refreshing acidity and a deep but restrained palate of floral-infused black fruit. Mid-weight, concentrated but serious and currently quite austere, there is a mineral core to the sinewy palate which needs time to resolve. Concentrated and ripe without being boisterous. Restrained power with good ageing potential.

94James Suckling

Lovely, bright fruit with black cherries, strawberries and orange peel as well as hints of peaches. Medium-bodied, this has firm tannins that are caressing and delicious. Fluid and attractive at the end. Drink or hold.

Vinification & Cultivation

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Vineyard Cultivation

Valli was established in 1998 by Grant Taylor, a pioneering Central Otago winemaker, and specialises in site-expressive, single-vineyard Pinot Noir from New Zealand's southernmost wine region. The Gibbston Vineyard sits in the cool, high and late-ripening Gibbston sub-region, where north-facing slopes, schist-derived soils and a long, slow growing season produce fragrant, structured Pinot Noir. Farming is meticulous and low-yielding, with the fruit hand-tended to preserve the delicate perfume and fine tannin that define Gibbston. The 2023 vintage is regarded as an exceptional Central Otago season, delivering ripe, pure fruit with lacy acidity and depth, described by critics as a classic Gibbston expression built for long-term cellaring of fifteen years or more.

Vinification

The 2023 Gibbston Pinot was hand-picked and fermented with roughly 25% whole bunches, the balance destemmed, using a cool pre-ferment soak and indigenous-yeast fermentation to build layered spice, floral and undergrowth complexity. Gentle handling and restrained extraction give the wine its fine, powdery, satin tannins and sense of drive. Following pressing, the wine was matured for around eleven months in French oak barrels, with about 27% new oak so that the wood supports rather than covers the red-berry and floral fruit. Malolactic conversion completed in barrel. Bottled at around 13% alcohol, the finished wine shows saline acidity, chalky texture and the elegance typical of Valli's single-vineyard Pinots.

About this Wine

Pinot Noir

A thin-skinned red grape known for its light body, red fruit character, and sensitivity to terroir, grown around the world.

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Central Otago

Central Otago is the southernmost wine growing region in the world, located at a latitude of 45 degrees south, on New Zealand’s south island. A spectacular landscape makes the region one of the most scenic wine regions if not in the world then certainly in New Zealand. Central to the region is the tourist destination of Queenstown, which is a great base to make wine trips from. Heavy mineral deposits in silt loams are typical for the soils in Central Otago, but is unlike any other region in New Zealand. The Otago region is the countries only ‘continental ’ wine growing region. Pinot Noir is the flagship red varietal, which is very well suited to the regions large diurnal shifts (a large diurnal shift means a big difference between low and high temperatures) and also the regions long, cool and dry autumn. The Pinot Noirs coming out of the Otago region are most often fragrant, lush Pinot Noirs with silky textures and true fruit intensity. Aromatic whites also thrive, in particular Riesling where anything from bone-dry to very sweet can be made. Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris and lesser amounts of Chardonnay is also made to a very high quality. Central Otago is in Jancis Robinson’s top five New World wine producing regions.

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