Villa Maria Attorney Pinot Noir 2019

It gives us great pleasure to unveil Villa Maria Attorney Marlborough Pinot Noir, the newest addition to the prestigious and limited Villa Maria Icon range. This new Icon joins their esteemed Villa Maria Ngakirikiri Hawkes Bay Cabernet Sauvignon as the ultimate embodiment of their passion to craft and sharing the very best New Zealand wines with the world as they celebrate over 60 years of extraordinary New Zealand winemaking. The Attorney Pinot Noir will only be released from the most exceptional vintages that support the required level of quality, care, and attention.

Attorney Vineyard is one of Marlborough’s premier Pinot Noir sites which, in the 2019 growing season, presented with an extraordinary parcel of fruit. A powerful statement of Marlborough Pinot Noir, the vine maturity, natural balance, and biodiversity of Attorney Vineyard produces single vineyard Pinot Noir with beguiling elegance and complexity.

Planted in 2002, Attorney Vineyard is situated in the Southern Valleys subregion of Marlborough on a north-facing block on the dry eastern foothills of the Wairau Valley. This sub-region receives minimal rainfall in the growing season and its deep clay soils provide perfect conditions to apply organic farming principles.

Villa Maria began its organic program in 1999 and Attorney Vineyard was converted and fully BioGro-certified as organic in 2012. The Pinot Noir fruit sourced from this vineyard has thick skins and small berries contributing to the dark colour and bold tannin structure.