Old Coach Road Nelson Pinot Noir 2024 - Special Case Offer

4 Stars - Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, April 2025

Vineyard: Seifried Brightwater vineyard
Sugar at Harvest: 23.7°Brix
Date of Harvest: Mid - Late March 2023
pH of Wine: 3.67
T.A of Wine: 5.4g/L
Suitable for Vegans and Vegetarians: Yes

Our Brightwater vineyard is situated 15 km from the coast and is sheltered from the south by the Richmond ranges. The ‘soil’ is a combination of rocks and boulders which is very hard on farm equipment but vital for holding the warmth of Nelson’s sun.

The fruit in our 2024 Old Coach Road Nelson Pinot Noir comes from our Brightwater vineyard where the Pinot Noir vines are well over thirty years in age and are showing great maturity and depth of flavour. Unfortunately our Brightwater Pinot Noir suffered spring frost damage in late October 2023, resulting in a very low yielding crop for vintage 2024.

Despite this, vintage 2024 was simply an outstanding vintage in Nelson - in fact Hermann Seifried has commented that it is perhaps the very best vintage of his 49 seasons in the top of the South! That from a character not known for exaggeration or embellishments.

Fruit was picked incrementally in April 2024 at the peak of flavour and phenolic ripeness. The de-stemmed fruit had a brief cold maceration period before individual parcels of fruit were inoculated for fermentation. Throughout fermentation plunging occurred twice daily and was tapered off to once daily as the fermentation finished. The young wine was drained to new, one and two-year-old French barriques for malolactic fermentation and barrel aging. The wine was stabilised and bottled October 2024.