Mahi Pinot Gris 2023

Mahi, meaning ‘our work, our craft’, began in 2001, fulfilling a dream for Brian and Nicola Bicknell. With a strong focus on single-vineyard wines from Marlborough, the idea behind Mahi is to respect and promote the individuality of those vineyards, and this focus of recognising and celebrating the diversity still continues. Since their first vintage they have built together a group of growers who are committed to their land and to the wines that come from it.

All of the vines reflect their ‘place’, their soils and aspects. All have been low cropped, hand-picked and fermented in the winery with the indigenous yeasts that arrive on the grapes. This is wine making with as little intervention as possible, so they truly reflect their sense of ‘place’ and the inspiration behind Mahi.

The single vineyard fruit was machine-harvested from to bins, minimising maceration and then underwent gentle pressing to extract high-quality juice while minimizing phenolic extraction. A portion of the juice was fermented in older French oak barrels to add weight and complexity. The remaining juice was fermented at cool temperatures in stainless steel tanks. Post-fermentation, the wine rested on its lees, and the final blend was made solely from free-run juice.