Valli Waitaki Valley Pinot Noir 2022

Valli Wines was founded in 1998 by esteemed winemaker Grant Taylor, one of New Zealand’s most awarded winemakers, with a career spanning several decades and continents. Grant’s name is synonymous with Otago Pinot Noir. He has been crafting wines in the region since 1993.

Named after his Great-Great Grandfather, Giuseppe Valli, who immigrated to New Zealand from an Italian winemaking background, Grant founded Valli with the aim of creating true representations of Otago’s sub-regions. This was also a first - no one had attempted to capture the developing subregional plot that has now begun to unfold as the next exciting chapter in the Otago wine story.

In 2015, established Otago winemaker Jen Parr joined Grant in the winery where the pair create wines with honesty, integrity, and most importantly, a sense of place.

Grapes were hand-harvested from the Waitaki vineyard, approximately 30 minutes from the coast. The fruit was 100% destemmed, and fermentation was carried out using indigenous yeasts. The wine was aged for 11 months in French oak barrels, with 29% being new oak. It was bottled after crossflow filtration but without fining.