Ata Rangi Crimson Pinot Noir german-pinotnoir Gourmet Traveller WINE Feb 2013

Gourmet Traveller WINE Feb 2013 features a much awaited head to head tasting of australian and New Zealand Pinots

but there's a soft

Winemaker Lucie Lawrence fashions one of Central Otago's most elegant and smooth pinots in every vintage

lovely textural qualities

the 2012 is drop-dead gorgeous from the very first taste

Ata Rangi Crimson Pinot Noir german-pinotnoir Gourmet Traveller WINE Feb 2013Looking more and more like a junior Ata Rangi as those 'young' vines grow up to more than 20 years old and each new vintage is released. It's succulent, briary and charry with chewiness from excellent skin tannins and just enough (old) oak. ' a bit of grunt in there' says winemaker Clive Paton. Sales of this pinot noir support the work of PROJECT CRIMSON, the charitable conservation trust whose mission is to plant and protect New Zealand's native