Mahi Pinot Noir, Marlborough (2023) Gift who pioneered hillside planting and

who pioneered hillside planting and dry farming long before they were fashionable

After fermentation and a first ageing in stainless steel

decanted an hour ahead if you're opening it young

at a time when serious Ribera meant long years in barrel

Mahi Pinot Noir, Marlborough (2023) Gift who pioneered hillside planting andMahi "our work" in Maori is the project of Brian Bicknell, who returned to Marlborough in the 1990s convinced its valleys were being flattened into one regional style. His answer was to chase the character of individual sites rather than blend it away, and the wines made his name for exactly that. This Pinot Noir draws on two contrasting vineyards: the cooler Fareham Road end of Twin Valleys, which gives the wine its firm, fine grained structure, and